You acted like it was terrible and absurd. Do you think we are...unsuited?
[DON'T BLAME THEM. Although really, they all have that annoying, nagging, interfering habit in one way or another. God knows if you brought someone home your family would collectively raise hell and prove you 100% right. Right now, Lottie is sort of forgetting that you don't know Gilbert, thinking in wider, abstract 'Prussia and Austria' terms, not missing your AGHAST expression when you realised and assuming that you, like others, think it's madness for her to have such a partner.
Or maybe you just hate men and want her to settle down with Julia, BECAUSE YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT IT SOUNDED LIKE, MISS TWO MOMMIES.]
Then take care to be discreet, for he will certainly make a scene if you do not. Now, now, don't exaggerate, I am not speaking to you like a child. You are always so quick to think that- [never mind that her tone of voice is exactly the type she would use for a child. Cuts off at that admonishment, frowning at the ridiculous, MOTHERLY sentiment, and then almost snorting at it]
I beg your pardon?! Now you are doing precisely the same thing! Have you taken my place now that you have grown up?
you exhausted me
[DON'T BLAME THEM. Although really, they all have that annoying, nagging, interfering habit in one way or another. God knows if you brought someone home your family would collectively raise hell and prove you 100% right. Right now, Lottie is sort of forgetting that you don't know Gilbert, thinking in wider, abstract 'Prussia and Austria' terms, not missing your AGHAST expression when you realised and assuming that you, like others, think it's madness for her to have such a partner.
Or maybe you just hate men and want her to settle down with Julia, BECAUSE YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT IT SOUNDED LIKE, MISS TWO MOMMIES.]
Then take care to be discreet, for he will certainly make a scene if you do not. Now, now, don't exaggerate, I am not speaking to you like a child. You are always so quick to think that- [never mind that her tone of voice is exactly the type she would use for a child. Cuts off at that admonishment, frowning at the ridiculous, MOTHERLY sentiment, and then almost snorting at it]
I beg your pardon?! Now you are doing precisely the same thing! Have you taken my place now that you have grown up?