After that there isn't a word to be said about it;--not a word.

Mr.Camperdown is the family lawyer, and when he writes to you letter after letter you take no more notice of him than a--dog!" The old woman was certainly very powerful.

The way in which she pronounced that last word did make Lady Eustace ashamed of herself.

"Why didn't you answer his letters, unless you knew you were in the wrong?
Of course you knew you were in the wrong." "No; I didn't.

A woman isn't obliged to answer everything that is written to her." "Very well! You just say that before the judge! for you'll have to go before a judge.