"For US!" Then more woefully, "Don't you want Carrie to be saved ?" she asked.
"Why should I?
Not a jot.

Carrie be hanged!" "But it's for Fanny," Mrs.Brook protested.

"If Carrie IS rescued it's a pretext the less for Fanny." As the young man looked for an instant rather gloomily vague she softly quavered: "I suppose you don't positively WANT Fanny to bolt ?" "To bolt ?" "Surely I've not to remind you at this time of day how Captain Dent-Douglas is always round the corner with the post-chaise, and how tight, on our side, we're all clutching her." "But why not let her go ?" Mrs.Brook, at this, showed real resentment.

"'Go'?
Then what would become of us ?" She recalled his wandering fancy.

"She's the delight of our life." "Oh!" Vanderbank sceptically murmured.
"She's the ornament of our circle," his companion insisted.