I am going to give you a chance to total your budget, and then I demand one half of the income from Father's estate above household expenses; and if I don't get it, on the day I am eighteen I shall go to John Gilman and say to him what I have said to you, and I shall go to the bank and demand that a division be made there, and that a separate bank book be started for me." Linda's amazement on entering the room had been worthy of note.
Eileen's at the present minute was beyond description.

Dumbfounded was a colorless word to describe her state of mind.
"You don't mean that," she gasped in a quivering voice when at last she could speak.
"I can see, Eileen, that you are taken unawares," said Linda.

"I have had four long years to work up to this hour.

Hasn't it even dawned on you that this worm was ever going to turn?
You know exquisite moths and butterflies evolve in the canyons from very unprepossessing and lowly living worms.

You are spending your life on the butterfly stunt.