"What have I said What have I done ?" she asked, a faint purple spot appearing in her cheeks.
"You have spoken triflingly of--of the volume by which Miss Wilson sets great store, and properly so." "If properly so, then why do you find fault with me ?" "Come, come," roared Mr.Jansenius, deliberately losing his temper as a last expedient to subdue her, "don't be impertinent, Miss." Agatha's eyes dilated; evanescent flushes played upon her cheeks and neck; she stamped with her heel.

"Uncle John," she cried, "if you dare to address me like that, I will never look at you, never speak to you, nor ever enter your house again.

What do you know about good manners, that you should call me impertinent?
I will not submit to intentional rudeness; that was the beginning of my quarrel with Miss Wilson.

She told me I was impertinent, and I went away and told her that she was wrong by writing it in the fault book.

She has been wrong all through, and I would have said so before but that I wanted to be reconciled to her and to let bygones be bygones.