It was very unusual for Sophia to be up-stairs at that hour, and the fact struck her significantly.

She knocked at the door, and was told rather irritably to "Come in." "Dear me, Sophia! what is the matter?
It feels as if there were something wrong in the house." "I suppose there is something wrong.

Father got a letter from Harry by the late post, and he left his dinner untouched; and mother is in her room crying, of course.

I do think it is a shame that Harry is allowed to turn the house upside down whenever he feels like it." "Perhaps he is in trouble." "He is always in trouble, for he is always busy making trouble.

His very amusements mean trouble for all who have the misfortune to have any thing to do with him.