"What makes he here ?" he demanded.

"Did I not forbid him my house ?" "I brought him," she answered pregnantly.
But for once he was not to be put down.

"Then you may take him hence again," said he.

"I'll not have him under my roof--under the same roof with that poor child he used so infamously.

I'll not suffer it!" The Gorgon cannot have looked more coldly wicked than her ladyship just then.