'I see you are in earnest.

I tell you what, Dombey.' The Major paused in his eating, and looked mysteriously indignant.

'That's a de-vilish ambitious woman, Sir.' Mr Dombey said 'Indeed ?' with frigid indifference: mingled perhaps with some contemptuous incredulity as to Miss Tox having the presumption to harbour such a superior quality.
'That woman, Sir,' said the Major, 'is, in her way, a Lucifer.

Joey B.has had his day, Sir, but he keeps his eyes.

He sees, does Joe.