"I should like to know what you did it for?
I'd like to know what made you think I wasn't able to take care of myself.

I just knew somebody had been meddling, but I didn't suppose it was you.

I can manage my own affairs in my own way, if you please, and I'll thank you after this to leave me to myself in what don't concern you." "Don't concern me?
You impudent jade!" her father began.
Christine advanced from the doorway toward the table; she had her hands closed upon what seemed trinkets, some of which glittered and dangled from them.

She said, "Will you go to him and tell him that this meddlesome minx, here, had no business to say anything about me to him, and you take it all back ?" "No!" shouted the old man.

"And if--" "That's all I want of you!" the girl shouted in her turn.