"And why should not Julia take him ?" she asked.
"I cannot tell why, but she never will," said Harry, almost in anger.

At that moment the door was opened, and Sir Hugh came into the room.

"I did not know that you were here," Sir Hugh said, turning to the visitor.
"I could not be down here without saying a few words to Lady Clavering." "The less said the better, I suppose, just at present," said Sir Hugh.
But there was no offence in the tone of his voice, or in his countenance, and Harry took the words as meaning none.
"I was telling Lady Clavering that as soon as she can, she would be better if she left home for a while." "And why should you tell Lady Clavering that ?" "I have told him that I would not go," said the poor woman.
"Why should she go, and where; and why have you proposed it?
And how does it come to pass that her going or not going should be a matter of solicitude to you ?" Now, as Sir Hugh asked these questions of his cousin, there was much of offence in his tone--of intended offence--and in his eye, and in all his bearing.

He had turned his back upon his wife, and was looking full into Harry's face; "Lady Clavering, no doubt, is much obliged to you," he said, "but why is it that you specially have interfered to recommend her to leave her home at such a time as this ?" Harry had not spoken as he did to Sir Hugh without having made some calculation in his own mind as to the result of what he was about to say.

He did not, as regarded himself, care for his cousin or his cousin's anger.