But, mamma, of course it's not that.

If Lord Rufford should say a word it is so much easier to manage down in the country than up in London.

He has L40,000 a year, if he has a penny." "How many girls have tried the same thing with him! But I don't mind.
I've always said that John Morton and Bragton would not do." "No, mamma; you haven't.

You were the first to say they would do." "I only said that if there were nothing else--" "Oh, mamma, how can you say such things! Nothing else,--as if he were the last man! You said distinctly that Bragton was L7,000 a year, and that it would do very well.

You may change your mind if you like; but it's no good trying to back out of your own doings." "Then I have changed my mind." "Yes,--without thinking what I have to go through.