Well, well, well, young man, thou speakest sound sense.

Thou shouldst prosper in thy business.
"Now, girl, show me the rest of the house, for I must needs be getting home ere long.

I shall weary my old bones with all this gadding to and fro." Gertrude was willing enough to obey.

The house was hardly changed from the time she had left it, save that all which was faded and worn had been replaced and furbished anew, and the whole place made sweet and wholesome, and as clean and bright as hands could make it.

Gertrude would have preferred a plainer and simpler abode, more like that of her neighbours; but she had not had the heart to undo all her mother's dainty handiwork, and Reuben had thought nothing too good for his bride.
Lady Scrope gibed and jeered a little, but not unkindly.