Dame Julie Andrews

Nor will I be dissuaded from it.

I have not been used to submit to any person's whims.

I have not been in the habit of brooking disappointment.

That will make your ladyship's situation at present more pitiable."

but it will have no effect on me.

I will not be interrupted.

Hear me in silence.

My daughter and my nephew are formed for each other.

They are descended on the maternal side from the same noble line, and on the father's from respectable, honorable, and ancient, though untitled, families.

Their fortune on both sides is splendid.

They are destined for each other by the voice of every member of their respective houses.

And what is to divide them?

The upstart pretensions of a young woman without family connections or fortune.

Is this to be endured?

But it must not, shall not be.

If you were sensible of your own good, you would not wish to quit the sphere in which you have been brought up.

In marrying your nephew, I should not consider myself as quitting that sphere.

He is a gentleman.

I am a gentleman's daughter.

So far, we are equal.