All gentlefolks have their proper rules of behaviour.

You can't be expected to understand them, mother." "But why should he go to them more than they should come to him, particular with young ladies there?
And him with only one horse to their seven or eight.

I am right, you may depend upon it, Jenny; and my mother, your grandmother, was a lady's-maid in a higher family than Darling--it depends upon them to come and look him up first, and he have no call to knock at their door without it.

Why, it stands to reason, poor young man! And not a bit hath he eaten from Monday." "Well, I believe I am right, but I'll ask Miss Dolly.

She is that sharp, she knows everything, and I don't mind what I say to her, when she thinks that she looks handsome.