Your father and mother gave you both particular warning against what you were not to do.

You both set to work to see how you could manage to obey in all the trivial details, and yet carry out your own plans in essentials.

You both knew very well what you were about, and have well deserved the unpleasant consequences of your actions.

I trust that you have both received a lasting lesson.

How much worse the results might have been, dear Emma, we do not dare to think.