"But why not, papa? We could go up on Wednesday morning."
"You can't do anything of the kind."
"But, my dear, we should all like to have a day fixed," said Lady Pomona. Then there was a pause. Even Georgiana, in her present state of mind, would have accepted some distant, even some undefined time, as a compromise.
"Then you can't have a day fixed," said Mr. Longestaffe.
"How long do you suppose that we shall be kept here?" said Sophia, in a low constrained voice.

"But why not, papa? We could go up on Wednesday morning."
"You can't do anything of the kind."
"But, my dear, we should all like to have a day fixed," said Lady Pomona. There was a pause. Even Georgiana would have accepted some distant, undefined time, as a compromise.
"You can't have a day fixed," said Mr. Longestaffe.
"How long shall we be kept here?" said Sophia, in a low constrained voice.
