If they persist in the scheme, they will find something.

I shall speak to my sisters and try to dissuade _them_, and that is all I can do." "I should think my aunt Norris would be on your side." "I dare say she would, but she has no influence with either Tom or my sisters that could be of any use; and if I cannot convince them myself, I shall let things take their course, without attempting it through her.

Family squabbling is the greatest evil of all, and we had better do anything than be altogether by the ears." His sisters, to whom he had an opportunity of speaking the next morning, were quite as impatient of his advice, quite as unyielding to his representation, quite as determined in the cause of pleasure, as Tom.
Their mother had no objection to the plan, and they were not in the least afraid of their father's disapprobation.

There could be no harm in what had been done in so many respectable families, and by so many women of the first consideration; and it must be scrupulousness run mad that could see anything to censure in a plan like theirs, comprehending only brothers and sisters and intimate friends, and which would never be heard of beyond themselves.

Julia _did_ seem inclined to admit that Maria's situation might require particular caution and delicacy--but that could not extend to _her_--she was at liberty; and Maria evidently considered her engagement as only raising her so much more above restraint, and leaving her less occasion than Julia to consult either father or mother.