Colonel Coffin, I know these widows.

I have had my eye on them.

They've got a way of bursting into a man's feelings and walking off with his affections that fills a modest woman like me with gall and bitterness.

You know Mrs.Banger?
No?
Well, now, look at her, f'r instance.

First she married Mr.Smyth, although what on earth he ever saw to admire about _her_ I cannot imagine.