'I shall stay here as long as I like, and be indebted neither to you nor to stepfather.' Mrs.Mumford breathed a sigh of thankfulness that she was not called upon to take part in this scene.

It was bad enough that the servant engaged in laying lunch could hear distinctly Mrs.Higgins's coarse and violent onslaught.

When the front door at length closed she rejoiced, but with trembling; for the words that fell upon her ear from the hall announced too plainly that Louise was determined to stay..