Will you give up this moon-calf business of yours or not ?" "It is not a moon-calf business, whatever that may be, and I will not give it up." "Very well, then, I can't make you as you are of age.

But I have done with you.

You will go to your room and stop there, and to-morrow morning you will return to your parents, to whom I will write at once.

You have betrayed my hospitality and presumed upon my kindness; after all the things I have given you, too," and her eyes fixed themselves upon a pearl necklace that Barbara was wearing.

For Lady Thompson could be generous when she was in the mood.
Barbara unfastened the necklace and offered it to her aunt without a word.
"Nonsense!" said Lady Thompson.