You are his guardian ?" "For a week." "What does it signify for how long?
Five minutes will settle my views.
Thank Heaven I did not come later, or I should have had to talk to him, instead of to a man of sense.

You must have seen what is going on.

What do you think of it ?" "The arrangement suits me so admirably," said John, smiling, "that I am hardly to be relied upon for an impartial opinion." "Will you tell me his circumstances ?" John explained them in a few words, and with admirable terseness and lucidity; and she nodded comprehensively all the while.
"That's capital.

He can't make ducks and drakes of it.

All tied up on the children.