Haven't you found that out yet ?" "I have found out," said Mrs.Ingleton tartly, "that Sylvia is a most wilful and perverse girl, and I think you are very unwise to put up with her whims.

I should be ashamed to have a girl of that age still on my hands." "I'd like to know how you'd have managed her any differently," muttered the squire, without looking up.
Mrs.Ingleton laughed unpleasantly.

"You don't know much about women, do you, my dear?
Of course I could have managed her differently.

She'd have been comfortably married for the past two years at least if I had been in command." Ingleton looked sourly incredulous.

"You don't know Sylvia," he observed.