Miss Dinah's Indignation
Phiz (Hablot K. Browne)
1863
Illustration for Charles Lever's Barrington (Chapter 37, p. 30)
Having learned that her brother has failed to glean anything much about Stapylton's "prospects" as a potential husband for Josephine — "Who he is, what he is; what by the father's side, what by the mother's; what are his means, and where; who knows him, who are his associates" (300) — Dinah flounces out of the room. That old Peter has been too embarrassed to ask for such specifics conveniently plays into Stapylton's hands, but certainly his reluctance to disclose such information freely is suspicious, as both Withering (centre) and Dinah agree. In her anger, Dinah overturns "a spider-table, and a case of stuffed birds that stood on it, as she passed" (30)