'What is there to be done?
I've spoken to young Harrington.' 'Spoken to him! He deserves horsewhipping! Have you not told him to quit the house instantly ?' Lady Jocelyn came to her husband's aid: 'It wouldn't do, I think, to kick him out.

In the first place, he hasn't deserved it.' 'Not deserved it, Emily!--the commonest, low, vile, adventuring tradesman!' 'In the second place,' pursued her ladyship, 'it's not adviseable to do anything that will make Rose enter into the young woman's sublimities.
It 's better not to let a lunatic see that you think him stark mad, and the same holds with young women afflicted with the love-mania.

The sound of sense, even if they can't understand it, flatters them so as to keep them within bounds.

Otherwise you drive them into excesses best avoided.' 'Really, Emily,' said Mrs.Shorne, 'you speak almost, one would say, as an advocate of such unions.' 'You must know perfectly well that I entirely condemn them,' replied her ladyship, who had once, and once only, delivered her opinion of the nuptials of Mr.and Mrs.Shorne.
In self-defence, and to show the total difference between the cases, Mrs.Shorne interjected: 'An utterly penniless young adventurer!' 'Oh, no; there's money,' remarked Sir Franks.
'Money is there ?' quoth Hamilton, respectfully.
'And there's wit,' added Sir John, 'if he has half his sister's talent.' 'Astonishing woman!' Hamilton chimed in; adding, with a shrug, 'But, egad!' 'Well, we don't want him to resemble his sister,' said Lady Jocelyn.

'I acknowledge she's amusing.' 'Amusing, Emily!' Mrs.Shorne never encountered her sister-in-law's calmness without indignation.