"You know what I've always said.

You require more companionship of your own age, you want to mix with other young people instead of wasting and dreaming your time away as you do, and it was for your sake, for your sake only, that I asked our friends----" "Oh, no, auntie, it wasn't.

You told me so yourself," Austin reminded her.

"You told me distinctly that it was for your own pleasure and not for mine that you were going to invite them.

So that argument won't do.