S.( _interrupting_).

Oh, I see you are quite in love with your daughters! But they say you are terribly strict and cruel in the musical education of your children; and, in fact, always.
DOMINIE.

Do you suppose I do this from affection?
or do you infer it, because they have proved artists, or because they look so blooming and healthy, or because they write such fine letters, or because they have not grown crooked over embroidery, or because they are so innocent, unaffected, and modest?
or-- MRS.

S.( _irritably_).

We will drop that subject.