Read it through once

"Why in the world should you spend your money, worry your family, and turn the house upside down for a parcel of girls who don't care a sixpence for you? I thought you had too much pride and sense to truckle to any mortal woman just because she wears French boots and rides in a _coupé_," said Jo, who, being called from the tragical climax of her novel, was not in the best mood for social enterprises.