London, you know--' 'The cheapest place in the world.' 'Nonsense, Maud!' 'But I know what I'm saying.

I've read quite enough about such things.
He might live very well indeed on thirty shillings a week, even buying his clothes out of it.' 'But he has told us so often that it's no use to him to live like that.
He is obliged to go to places where he must spend a little, or he makes no progress.' 'Well, all I can say is,' exclaimed the girl impatiently, 'it's very lucky for him that he's got a mother who willingly sacrifices her daughters to him.' 'That's how you always break out.

You don't care what unkindness you say!' 'It's a simple truth.' 'Dora never speaks like that.' 'Because she's afraid to be honest.' 'No, because she has too much love for her mother.

I can't bear to talk to you, Maud.

The older I get, and the weaker I get, the more unfeeling you are to me.' Scenes of this kind were no uncommon thing.