'I am sure of it,' said she. 'They sent me out of the room, but not
before I had seen certain symptoms.'
'It is very hard that poor Emily should bear all the blame,' said
Lily.
'You have managed to escape it very well,' said Jane, laughing. 'You
have all the thanks and praise. I suppose it is because the intimacy
with Miss Weston was your work.'
'I will not believe that nonsense,' said Lily.
'Seeing is believing, they say,' said Jane. 'Remember, it is not
only me. Think of Rotherwood. And Maurice guesses it too, and
Redgie told him great things were going on.'
While Jane was speaking they heard the drawing-room door open, and in
another moment Emily came in.
It was true that, as Jane said, she had been deposed. Mr. Mohun had
begun by saying, 'Emily, can you bring me such an account of your
expenditure as I desired?'
'I scarcely think I can, papa,' said Emily. 'I am sorry to say that
my accounts are rather in confusion.'
'That is to say, that you have been as irregular in the management of
your own affairs as you have in mine. Well, I have paid your debt to
Lilias, and from this time forward I require of you to reduce your
expenses to the sum which I consider suitable, and which both Eleanor
and Lilias have found perfectly sufficient.
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