"Look here, Sophia. If you don't like it, you need not talk about it. We shall always have a house in town, and you will not. If you don't like to come to us, you needn't. That's about all."
"George wouldn't let me go there at all," said Sophia.
"Then--George--had better keep you at home at Toodlam. Where's mamma? I should have thought somebody might have come and met me to say a word to me, instead of allowing me to creep into the house like this."

"Look here, Sophia, if you don't like it, you need not talk about it. We shall always have a house in town, and you will not. If you don't like to come to us, you needn't. That's all."
"George wouldn't let me go there," said Sophia.
"Then he had better keep you at home at Toodlam. Where's mamma?"
