"You know, — about my father. No matter what he does, if it were the worst thing in the world, your lips have no business to mention it to my ears."
"I wasn't saying anything bad," said Rose.
"Your notions of bad and good, and honourable and dishonourable, are very different from mine! If he did as you say, I should be bitterly ashamed."
"I don't see why."
"I will not have such things spoken of to me, — Rose, do you understand? What my father does, no human being has a right to comment upon to me; and none shall!"
"You think you may talk as you like to me," said Rose, between pouting and crying. "I was only laughing."
"Laugh about something else."
"I wish Winthrop Landholm had been here."
"Why?"
"He'd have given you another speech about engineering."