"You are behaving like a child of six, and really, if you go on, you will provoke me into treating you as such.

The attitude you have chosen to adopt is neither sensible nor dignified, let me tell you.

You resent my presence here.

Very well; but you cannot prevent it.

Would it not be much wiser of you either to submit to my authority or----" "Or ?" repeated Sylvia icily.
"Or take the obvious course of providing yourself with a home elsewhere," said Mrs.Ingleton.
Sylvia put up a quick hand to her throat.