'It is all because they are fine people.'
'Nay, Marianne, if our cousins were to come into this neighbourhood,
we should not be as dependent on the Mohuns as we now feel.'
'I hope we should not break our engagements with them.'
'Perhaps they could not help it. When their aunt came to fetch them,
knowing how seldom they can have the carriage, it would have been
scarcely civil to say that they had rather take a walk with people
they can see any day.'
'Last year Lilias would have let Emily go by herself,' said Marianne.
'Alethea, they are all different since that Lady Rotherwood came--all
except Phyl. Ada is a great deal more conceited than she was when
she was staying here; she pulls out her curls, and looks in the glass
much more, and she is always talking about some one having taken her
for Lady Florence's sister. And, Alethea, just fancy, she does not
like me to go through a gate before her, because she says she has
precedence!'
Alethea was much amused, but she would not let Marianne condemn the
whole family for Ada's folly. 'It will all come right,' said she,
'let us be patient and good-humoured, and nothing can be really
wrong.'
Though Alethea made the best of it to her sister, she could not but
feel hurt, and would have been much more so if her temper had been
jealous or sentimental.
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