At any rate you are regarded as the mistress of the establishment, and it is for you to tell the lady that she must go elsewhere.
I do hope that you have done so, or at least that you will do so now.

It is intolerable that the widow of my brother,--a clergyman,--should harbour a lady who is separated from her husband and who receives visits from a gentleman who is reputed to be her lover.

I wonder much that your eldest daughter should countenance such a proceeding.
Yours truly, JEMIMA STANBURY.
Mrs.Stanbury, when the letter had been read to her, held up both her hands in despair.

"Dear, dear," she exclaimed.

"Oh, dear!" "She had such pleasure in writing it," said Priscilla, "that one ought hardly to begrudge it her." The blackest spot in the character of Priscilla Stanbury was her hatred for her aunt in Exeter.