"I wonder if the redoubtable Mrs.Bathurst does really beat her when she is naughty.

It would be excellent treatment for her, you know." "I haven't a doubt of it," said the Colonel.

"She is absolutely under her mother's control.

That great raw-boned woman would have a heavy hand too, I'll be bound." "Oh, there is no doubt Dinah stands very much in awe of her.

I never knew she had any will of her own till she came here.