For what reason?
This--to discredit this man! To make me hate and loathe him! To force me back to Waldron.

To--" "Stop!" shouted the old man, in a well-assumed passion.

"No daughter of mine shall talk to me this way! Silence! It is monstrous and unthinkable.

It--it is horrible beyond belief! Silence, I tell you--and--" "No, father, not silence," she replied, with perfect poise.

"Not silence now, but speech.