The ladies said: "We have only to press it with papa, and we shall quit this place." But at the second discussion they found that they had not advanced.

The only change was in the emphasis that their father added to the interrogations already uttered.

"What does it lead to?
What's to come after?
I see your object.
But, am I to go into a new house for the sake of getting you out of it, and then be left there alone?
It's against your interests, too.

Never mind how.

Leave that to a business man.