If you have any sense at all, you will go away and play with your dolls.

You can't have left them very long, and I'm sure it is a more fitting amusement for you than ordering me about my father's house." Virginia moved up and down the room.

The tears were already in her eyes; she was utterly and completely perplexed.
"Stella," she said, "you know what sort of a man your father is.

If he learns that you have been here in this room, he will never forgive me.
He will send me home, and that would be hateful, for many, many reasons.
Do please be reasonable, and come away with me now into one of the other rooms.

I will do all that I can to bring you two together." Stella seemed to have made up her mind to quarrel with her cousin.