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'I will not, said Fanny, without answering the question, 'submit to be mother-in-lawed by Mrs General; and I will not submit to be, in any respect whatever, either patronised or tormented by Mrs Merdle. Little Dorrit laid her hand upon the hand that held the bottle of sweet water, with a still more anxious look.
But there is a principle involved a filial principle and I implore you not to submit to be mother-in-lawed by Mrs General, without asserting it in making every one about you as uncomfortable as possible. I don't expect you to stand by it indeed, I know you won't, Pa being concerned but I wish to rouse you to a sense of duty.
Then her eyes encountered Billie's and she dropped them in embarrassment. They were both thinking of the same thing; the two notes left under a stone at the shrine and the rainy meeting in the garden. After all, perhaps Yoritomo might have thought she liked him but the idea was intolerable and Nancy thrust it aside. "How would you like to be mother-in-lawed by Mme. Ito, Nancy?" asked Elinor.
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