"Would you really, Fanny?"
"Yes; I should order the dress, and trust in Providence for the result. You may be able to bring her round somehow between now and the wedding."
"But I am not going to humiliate myself. I am not going to be trampled on by my daughter."
"Of course not; but you must have her at your wedding."
"If I were to tell Captain Winstanley what she has said this afternoon——"
"He would be very angry, no doubt. But I would not tell him if I were you."
"No, I shall not say anything about it."
Yet, before night, Captain Winstanley had heard every syllable that Vixen had said; with some trifling and unconscious exaggerations, hardly to be avoided by a woman of Mrs. Tempest's character, in the narration of her own wrongs.