You know that as well as I do: if we're speaking the truth, let's speak the whole truth.

Last year I was wild to marry you, and you wouldn't look at me: this year--well, you appear to be willing.

Now, what has changed in the interval?
Your situation, that's all.

Then you thought you could do better; now----" "You think you can ?" broke from her ironically.
"Why, yes, I do: in one way, that is." He stood before her, his hands in his pockets, his chest sturdily expanded under its vivid waistcoat.
"It's this way, you see: I've had a pretty steady grind of it these last years, working up my social position.

Think it's funny I should say that?
Why should I mind saying I want to get into society?
A man ain't ashamed to say he wants to own a racing stable or a picture gallery.
Well, a taste for society's just another kind of hobby.