He will smoke, though he knows it makes me worse, besides costing more than he can afford, and you will put on your best dress, without asking leave, and wear it out in a damp night, and spoil it." Maria continued to stand still, and her mother to regard her with that odd mixture of worshipful love and chiding.

Suddenly Mrs.Edgham closed her mouth more tightly.
"Stand round here," said she, violently.

"Let me unbutton your dress.
I don't see how you fastened it up yourself, anyway; you wouldn't have thought you could, if it hadn't been for deceiving your mother.
You would have come down to me to do it, the way you always do.

You have got it buttoned wrong, anyway.

You must have been a sight for the folks who sat behind you.