But your father knew he was being dignified, and you knew you were being dignified.

My dear, what a pair of you!" Michael frowned.
"But is nothing serious, then ?" he asked.

"Surely it was serious enough last night.

There was I in rank rebellion to my father, and it vexed him horribly; it did more, it grieved him." She laid her hand on Michael's knee.
"As if I didn't know that!" she said.

"We're all sorry for that, though I should have been much sorrier if you had given in and ceased to vex him.