It certainly would be mortifying for you to have to go and stay there with him and Joseph's mother.

I suppose, though, that the Mortimers would have to call." Amelia felt a certain delight in presenting this picture to Laura.
"I would never go near them!" exclaimed Laura, very angry with her sister-in-law.
"Why not ?" persisted Amelia, determined to make Laura see things as they were.

"You could not possibly wish to divide a man from his own family; they have never injured you." "Oh that he and I were on a desert island together," said Laura.

She had often said that before to Amelia.

She now felt that if Joseph's father and mother were there also, and there was nobody else to see, she should not mind their presence; besides, it would be convenient, they would act almost as servants.
Amelia very seldom had intuitions; but one seemed to visit her then.