Some minutes later, Marian, discussing Conolly's letter with Elinor, was interrupted by a servant, who informed her that her father desired to see her in his study.
"Now for it, Marian!" said Nelly, when the servant was gone.

"Remember that you have to meet the most unreasonable of adversaries, a parent asserting his proprietary rights in his child.

Dont be sentimental.
Leave that to him: he will be full of a father's anguish on discovering that his cherished daughter has feelings and interests of her own.
Besides, Conolly has crushed him; and he will try to crush you in revenge." "I wish I were not so nervous," said Marian.

"I am not really afraid, but for all that, my heart is beating very unpleasantly." "I wish I were in your place," said Elinor.

"I feel like a charger at the sound of the trumpet." "I am glad, for poor papa's sake, that you are not," said Marian, going out.
She knocked at the study door; and her father's voice, as he bade her come in, impressed her more than ever before.