within moments , she realized that her suspicion was correct : aunt cornelia , who taught deportment at a school for young girls of wealthy families , was not at all pleased with sheridan bromleigh , and she was treating patrick bromleigh to a furious scold on that very subject : `` you ought to be horsewhipped for the way you 've reared that child , '' aunt cornelia ranted in a scornful , disrespectful tone that sheridan 's father would ordinarily never have tolerated from anyone , let alone endured in silence as he seemed to be doing .