I know what it would be if I went and told her.' He ate in silence.

Alice waited.
'You must go and see Emma,' was his next remark.

'Tell her there's a grave in Manor Park Cemetery; her father and mother were buried there, you know.

Keene 'll look after it all and he'll come and tell you what to do.' 'Why did you come up ?' 'Oh, I couldn't talk about these things in letters.

You'll have to tell mother; she might want to go to the funeral.' 'I don't see why I should do all your disagreeable work, Dick!' 'Very well, don't do it,' he replied sullenly, throwing down his knife and fork.
A scene of wrangling followed, without violence, but of the kind which is at once a cause and an effect of demoralisation.