Hadn't you better give all the orders for your own apartments yourself?
The others I will attend to." "My orders are already given," Lady Kingsland said, with frigid hauteur.

"My jointure house is to be fitted up.

Before you return from your honey-moon I will have quitted Kingsland Court with my daughter.

Permit Mildred and me to retain our present apartments unaltered until that time; then the future Lady Kingsland can have the old rooms disfigured with as much gilding and stucco and ormolu as she pleases." The young man's fair face blackened with an angry scowl as he listened to the taunting, spiteful speech.

But he restrained himself.
"There is no necessity for your withdrawal from your old home.