I hardly know how to sit down and eat my dinner in company, and have no idea of seeing a human being before two o'clock." "What do you do with yourself ?" "I rush in and out of the garden and spend my time between my books and my flowers and my tobacco pipes." "Do you mean to live always like that ?" she asked,--in perfect innocency.
"I think so.

Sometimes I doubt whether it's wise." "I don't think it wise at all," said Mary.
"Why not ?" "People should live together, I think." "You mean that I ought to have a wife ?" "No;--I didn't mean that.

Of course that must be just as you might come to like any one well enough.

But a person need not shut himself up and be a hermit because he is not married.

Lord Rufford is not married and he goes everywhere." "He has money and property and is a man of pleasure." "And your cousin, Mr.John Morton." "He is essentially a man of business, which I never could have been.
And they say he is going to be married to that Miss Trefoil who has been staying there.