CHAPTER LXXVIII - MISS LONGESTAFFE AGAIN AT CAVERSHAM 

All this time Mr Longestaffe was necessarily detained in London while the three ladies of his family were living forlornly at Caversham. He had taken his younger daughter home on the day after his visit to Lady Monogram, and in all his intercourse with her had spoken of her suggested marriage with Mr Brehgert as a thing utterly out of the question. Georgiana had made one little fight for her independence at the Jermyn Street Hotel. 'Indeed, papa, I think it's very hard,' she said. 

'What's hard? I think a great many things are hard; but I have to bear them.' 

'You can do nothing for me.' 

'Do nothing for you! Haven't you got a home to live in, and clothes to wear, and a carriage to go about in,--and books to read if you choose to read them? What do you expect?' 

'You know, papa, that's nonsense.' 

'How do you dare to tell me that what I say is nonsense?' 

'Of course there's a house to live in and clothes to wear; but what's to be the end of it? Sophia, I suppose, is going to be married.' 

'I am happy to say she is,--to a most respectable young man and a thorough gentleman.' 

'And Dolly has his own way of going on.' 

'You have nothing to do with Adolphus.' 

'Nor will he have anything to do with me. If I don't marry what's to become of me? It isn't that Mr Brehgert is the sort of man I should choose.' 
When?
He had taken his younger daughter home on the day after his visit to Lady Monogram