I'll provide everything, and all I ask of you is just to sit in your own drawing-room--' 'Mrs.Higgins, be so kind as to listen to me.

This is quite impossible.

I can't dream of allowing any such thing.' The other glared in astonishment, which tended to wrath.
'But can't you see, Mrs.Mumford, that it's for your _own_ good as well as ours?
Do you want people to be using your name--' 'What can it matter to me how _such_ people think or speak of me ?' cried Emmeline, trembling with exasperation.
'Such people! I don't think you know who you're talking about, Mrs.
Mumford.

You'll let me tell you that my friends are as respectable as yours--' 'I shall not argue about it,' said Emmeline, standing up.

'You will please to remember that already I've had a great deal of trouble and annoyance, and what you propose would be quite intolerable.