ABSTRACT
Very bitter were the reproaches which Rosalie was compelled to hear during their way home. She bore them with patience and silence, conscious perhaps that they were not wholly unmerited; she was, indeed, willing enough to acknowledge that she should not so rudely have repulsed Hughson in positive disobedience of her father’s commands; but why her mother should make her conversation with Charles Vyvian so great a crime, she could not imagine, since in fact she had shewn a much greater disposition to converse with his cousin than with him, and was perfectly conscious that she gave him no other preference than what arose from the long intimacy, that being so much together in childhood, had created between them ….. On this conversation, however, it was that Mrs. Lessington dwelt with acrimonious repetition – protesting to her daughter, that if Mrs. Vyvian were acquainted with the impropriety, folly and disobedience she had been guilty of, that her favour would be forfeited for ever.
