Please don’t interfere, Aunt Harriet. I suppose I can be trusted to speak to my mother properly by this time.
MRS. CLOUSTON
You certainly ought to, my dear. You are quite old enough.
HESTER
Very well then. Perhaps you will be good enough not to dictate to me in future. What was it you were discussing, father?
JANET
I’ll tell you, Hester. Father wanted to adopt Johnny. He wanted me to come down here to live altogether.
HESTER
Indeed? Well, father, understand, please, that if Janet comes down here to live I go!