"If it were not for mamma's sake, I should detest that prim villa and all its arrangements.

You see me so happy here, where there is no pretence of grandeur--" "But I am bound to warn you that I shall not be able to provide Yorkshire teas at the commencement of our domestic career," I remarked, by way of parenthesis.
"Aunt Dorothy will send us hampers of poultry and cakes, sir, and for the rest of our time we can live upon bread and water." On this I promised my betrothed a house in Cavendish or Portman-square, and a better-built landau than Mr.Sheldon's, in the remote future.
With those dear eyes for my pole-stars, I felt myself strong enough to clamber up the slippery ascent to the woolsack.

The best and purest ambition must surely be that which is only a synonym for love.
After we had sat talking in the gloaming to our hearts' content, aunt Dorothy appeared, followed by a sturdy handmaid with lighted candles, and a still sturdier handmaid with a ponderous tea-tray.

The two made haste to spread a snow-white cloth, and to set forth the species of banquet which it is the fashion nowadays to call high tea.

Anon came uncle Joseph, bringing with him some slight perfume from the piggeries, and he and aunt Dorothy were pleased to be pleasantly facetious and congratulatory in their conversation during the social meal which followed their advent.
After tea we played whist again, aunt Dorothy and I obtaining a succession of easy victories over Charlotte and uncle Joe.