Mansfield Park - Chapter 23

"But why should Mrs. Grant ask Fanny?" said Lady Bertram. "How came she to think of asking Fanny? Fanny never dines there, you know, in this sort of way. I cannot spare her, and I am sure she does not want to go. Fanny, you do not want to go, do you?", ,"If you put such a question to her," cried Edmund, preventing his cousin's speaking, "Fanny will immediately say No; but I am sure, my dear mother, she would like to go; and I can see no reason why she should not.", ,"I cannot imagine why Mrs. Grant should think of asking her? She never did before. She used to ask your sisters now and then, but she never asked Fanny.", , ,"But my mother will have my father with her all the evening.", ,"To be sure, so I shall.", ,We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。,We hesitated at the propriety of the method.我们对这种办法是否适用拿不定主意 。