I didn't want the alterations made; but you would insist on it.

I didn't think it was best; but you would have them." "But, Lillie, it was all because you wanted them." "Well, I dare say; but I shouldn't have wanted them if I thought it was going to bring in all this bother and trouble, and make me have to look over old accounts, and all such things.

I'd rather never have had any thing!" And here Lillie began to cry.
"Come, now, my darling, do be a sensible woman, and not act like a baby." "There, John! it's just as I knew it would be; I always said you wanted a different sort of a woman for a wife.

Now, you knew when you took me that I wasn't in the least strong-minded or sensible, but a poor little helpless thing; and you are beginning to get tired of me already.

You wish you had married a woman like Grace, I know you do." "Lillie, how silly! Please do listen, now.