Must we ask my aunt's permission ?" "We will dispense with your aunt's permission.

She is shut up in her study--and we are all forbidden to disturb her.

I will take it on myself." She turned to the girls with another outbreak of irritability.
"Be off!" Maria rose with dignity, and made one of her successful exits.

"I am sorry, dear Miss Minerva, if _I_ have done anything to make you angry." She pointed the emphasis on "I," by a side-look at her sister.

Zo bounced out of the room, and performed the Italian boy's dance on the landing.