"I suppose such things justify themselves somehow, especially when it's a clergyman.
And of course you know about your mother's idea of coming over here to settle ?" "No!" said Elfrida, arrested.

"She hasn't mentioned it.
Do they talk of it seriously ?" "I don't know about _seriously_.

Mr.Bell doesn't seem as if he could make up his mind.

He's so fond of Sparta you know.

But Mrs.Bell is just wild to come.