We've had our tiffs before now, and shall have again, I suppose.

It's the natur' of married people to fall out; but there's no call to carry on before friends.

Push up that lounge nearer the fire.
Won't the other gentleman," turning to Mr.Alwynn, "come and warm himself?
I'm sure it's cold enough." Mr.Alwynn, who was a man of peace, devoutly wished he were at home again in his own study.
"It is a cold morning," he said; "but we are not here to discuss the weather." He stopped short.

He had been hurried here so much against his will, and so entirely without an explanation, that he was not quite sure what he had come to discuss, or how he could best support his friend.
"What do you want ?" said Dare, in the same suppressed voice, without looking at her.
"My rights," she said, incisively; "and, what's more, I mean to have 'em.

I've not come over from America for nothing, I can tell you that; and I've not come on a visit neither.