for ever!  After the service they came back to lunch, and that meal also was eaten in silence.  When it was over the head of the family put himself into the dining-room arm-chair, evidently meaning to be left alone there.  In that case he would have meditated upon his troubles till he went to sleep, and would have thus got through the afternoon with comfort.  But this was denied to him.  The two daughters remained steadfast while the things were being removed; and Lady Pomona, though she made one attempt to leave the room, returned when she found that her daughters would not follow her.  Georgiana had told her sister that she meant to ‘have it out’ with her father, and Sophia had of course remained in the room in obedience to her sister’s behest.  When the...