The three ladies, when left to deplore their fate, expressed their opinions as to the sentence which had been pronounced very strongly. But the daughters were louder in their anger than was their mother.
"He can't really mean it," said Sophia.
"He does," said Lady Pomona, with tears in her eyes.
"He must unmean it again;--that's all," said Georgiana. "Dolly has said something to him very rough, and he resents it upon us. Why did he bring us up at all if he means to take us down before the season has begun?"
"I wonder what Adolphus has said to him. Your papa is always hard upon Adolphus."

The three ladies expressed their opinions very strongly, the daughters more loudly than their mother.
"He can't really mean it," said Sophia.
"He does," said Lady Pomona, with tears in her eyes.
"Why did he bring us up to London at all," said Georgiana, "if he means to take us away before the season has begun?"
"I wonder what Adolphus said to him. Your papa is always hard upon Adolphus."
