You must, of course, do as you please,' she had remarked. 'But I really think,...

You must, of course, do as you please,' she had remarked. 'But I really think, through all these years, that Mr Crawford has learned to take care of himself. I am sure his unique sense of domestic responsibility will impel him, unswerving, to trace us wherever we go.'
Which was precisely the kind of bitchy remark, thought Jerott furiously, that Lymond himself would have made.