You must admit that the bull man is a very dull kind of creature, unless he can make things lively for you by prodding you with his horns.

When he is dead, he is certainly done with." "I wish he was done with," she said, with a sigh.
"Well, as far as you are concerned, he is done with, surely," he said, in some surprise.
"Of course, of course," she said quickly.

"But still, he seems likely to give a great deal of trouble to somebody; and if there is a trial, how am I to know that my name won't be brought up ?" "I don't think there's a chance of it," he said.

"How should it be brought up ?" "One never knows," she said, with a note of nervous dread in her voice.
"Well, as far as I'm concerned, he'll get no help in making a posthumous nuisance of himself from me; and I'm inclined to think that, as things are going, he'll need my help to do that," he said in a tone of quiet satisfaction.
"A posthumous nuisance--you do have phrases! And how you do dislike him!" she said.
"The moderately civilized man, with a gentle disposition like mine, always does hate the bull man.

Also, he despises him," said Mr.
Manley calmly.
She was silent a while, thinking; then she said: "What did you mean by saying: 'If it was a crime.' What else could it have been ?" "A suicide.