’Then go and be your own mistress.  You dare to tell me, your father, that I have premeditated a falsehood!  If you tell me that again, you shall eat your meals in your own room or not eat them in this house.’

’Did you not promise that we should go back if we would come down and entertain these people?’

’I will not argue with a child, insolent and disobedient as you are.  If I have anything to say about it, I will say it to your mother.  It should be enough for you that I, your father, tell you that you have to live here.  Now go away, and if you choose to be sullen, go and be sullen where I shan’t see you.’  Georgiana looked round on her mother and sister and...