It would be difficult even for me to take no notice whatever of a young man who accosted me in a place like this.

Severity, mild displeasure, or a determination not to speak, might be shown." "If necessary," said Sophia; "but--" "If _necessary_," the father corrected himself, emphasizing his words with a gentle tap of his fingers on the table.

"I only mean if necessary, of course." "People have such easy-going ways here," said Sophia.

"Don't you think, mamma, a little ordinary discretion on the girls' part would be enough?
Blue and Red have too much sense, I suppose, to treat him as an equal; but they can be polite." Eliza, overhearing this, decided that she would never treat the young American as an equal, although she had no idea why she should not.
Let it not be supposed that Mrs.Rexford had idled over the dish she was wiping.

The conversation was, in fact, carried on between the family in the bright sitting-room and an intermittent appearance of Mrs.Rexford at the door of the shady kitchen.