Be just Sophia.

I have paid you fifteen pounds of it back already, and I shall not buy a single new dress until it is all returned.

You will not lose a shilling, Sophia." "How Quixotic you can be! However, it is no use exciting ourselves to-night.

One likes to keep the peace at Yule-tide, and so I will bow down to your idol as much as I can conscientiously." Charlotte made no answer.

She had risen hastily, and with rather unnecessary vigor was rattling the ewer and basin, and plashing out the water.