“I wish Darnley would try and support a wife as well as his mother! I hate to see anyone as decent as he is, getting so little pleasure.”

“Mattie, eh? What a boy you are! Legitimate⁠ ⁠… illegitimate⁠ ⁠… you’re ready to look after them all! I daresay you’re only waiting till my new flame, Mr. Manley, starts me in my own shop, to give my twenty-five pounds to this deserving couple!”

“What’s your idea, Mother, of how things are at Pond Cottage? I don’t believe I’ve ever asked you that.”

“What do you mean⁠ ⁠… how they are? A good but very plain young woman and a good but very handsome young man⁠ ⁠… isn’t that the whole situation? She’s in love with him, of course; and he enjoys it. He’d do more than enjoy it if her nose wasn’t so awfully like yours!”

“Will they marry in the end, do you suppose?”