She found a way of leading up to the catastrophe.
'Oh, mother has been going on so, Emma! What do you think?
She won't have anything to do with the house any longer.

She's given me the keys and all the money she had, and she's going to live just in her bedroom.
She says she'll get her food from the kitchen herself, and she won't have a thing done for her by any one.

I'm sure she means it; I never saw her in such a state.

She says if she'd ever so little money of her own, she'd leave the house altogether.

She's been telling me I've no feeling, and that I'm going to the bad, that I shall live to disgrace her, and I can't tell you what.