"And yet it isn't as if he said a great deal.
He doesn't.

I'll say this for him.

He's always the gentleman.

And I couldn't say as much for his sister being a lady, and I'm sorry for it.
He's the most gentlemanly man in Turnhill, and always so spruce, too!" "His sister ?" "Well, his half-sister, since you're so particular, Miss Precise!" "Not Miss Gailey ?" said Hilda, who began faintly to recall a forgotten fact of which she thought she had once been cognizant.
"Yes, Miss Gailey," Mrs.Lessways snapped, still very genial and content.

"I did hear she's quarrelled out and out with _him_, too, at last!" She tightened her lips.