In the course of the debate, in the heat of her anger, Mrs.Trevelyan declared that were any such threat held out to her, she would leave the house and see Colonel Osborne in the street, or at the inn.
"No, Emily; no," said Nora.
"But I will.

I will not submit to be treated as a guilty woman, or as a prisoner.

They may say what they like; but I won't be shut up." "No one has tried to shut you up," said Priscilla.
"You are afraid of that old woman at Exeter," said Mrs.Trevelyan; for by this time the facts of the Stanbury correspondence had all been elicited in general conversation; "and yet you know how uncharitable and malicious she is." "We are not afraid of her," said Priscilla.

"We are afraid of nothing but of doing wrong." "And will it be wrong to let an old gentleman come into the house," said Nora, "who is nearly sixty, and who has known us ever since we were born ?" "If he is nearly sixty, Priscilla," said Mrs.Stanbury, "that does seem to make a difference." Mrs.Stanbury herself was only just sixty, and she felt herself to be quite an old woman.
"They may be devils at eighty," said Priscilla.
"Colonel Osborne is not a devil at all," said Nora.
"But mamma is so foolish," said Priscilla.

"The man's age does not matter in the least." "I beg your pardon, my dear," said Mrs.Stanbury, very humbly.
At that time the quarrel was raging, but afterwards came the reconciliation.