It will be a foreign house." "Are we very sure that we need a foreign house ?" Mr.Wentworth inquired.
"Do you think it desirable to establish a foreign house--in this quiet place ?" "You speak," said Acton, laughing, "as if it were a question of the poor Baroness opening a wine-shop or a gaming-table." "It would be too lovely!" Gertrude declared again, laying her hand on the back of her father's chair.
"That she should open a gaming-table ?" Charlotte asked, with great gravity.
Gertrude looked at her a moment, and then, "Yes, Charlotte," she said, simply.
"Gertrude is growing pert," Clifford Wentworth observed, with his humorous young growl.

"That comes of associating with foreigners." Mr.Wentworth looked up at his daughter, who was standing beside him; he drew her gently forward.

"You must be careful," he said.

"You must keep watch.

Indeed, we must all be careful.