Before this, as soon as Kitty went out of the room in tears, Dolly, with her motherly, family instincts, had promptly perceived that here a woman's work lay before her, and she prepared to do it.

She took off her hat, and, morally speaking, tucked up her sleeves and prepared for action.

While her mother was attacking her father, she tried to restrain her mother, so far as filial reverence would allow.