human
And you mean to put up with it, mamma?
gpt
What can we do, my dear?
human
I will do something. I'm not going to be cheated and swindled and have my life thrown away into the bargain. I have always behaved well to him. I have never run up bills without saying anything about them. This was a cut at her elder sister, who had once got into some little trouble of that kind.
gpt
I have never got myself talked about with any body. If there is anything to be done I always do it. I have written his letters for him till I have been sick, and when you were ill I never asked him to stay out with us after two or half-past two at the latest. And now he tells me that I am to eat my meals up in my bedroom because I remind him that he distinctly promised to take us back to London! Did he not promise, mamma?
human
I understood so, my dear.
gpt
You know he promised, mamma. If I do anything now he must bear the blame of it. I am not going to keep myself straight for the sake of the family, and then be treated in that way.
human
You do that for your own sake, I suppose,
gpt
It is more than you've been able to do for anybody's sake,