"I'm saying my say right now.

This is a disgrace to the whole Bates family.

We may not be much, but there isn't a lazy, gambling, drunken loafer among us, and there won't be so far as I'm concerned." She glared at Kate who gazed at her in wonder.
"You really married this lout ?" she demanded.
"I told you I was married," said Kate, patiently, for she saw that Nancy Ellen was irresponsible with anger.
"You're going to live with him, you're going to stay in Walden to live ?" she cried.
"That is my plan at present," said Kate.
"Well, see that YOU STAY THERE," said Nancy Ellen.

"You can't bring that--that creature to my house, and if you're going to be his wife, you needn't come yourself.

That's all I've got to say to you, you shameless, crazy--" "Nancy Ellen, you shall not!" cried Robert Gray, deftly slipping the lines from her fingers, and starting the horse full speed.