"Then she is your intellectual inferior, and more excusable. Anyway, it
is wise to connive at a thing we can't help."

"What keep her, after this? no, never."

"My dear, pray do not send her away, for she is tidy in the house, and
quick, and better than any one we have had this last six months; and you
know you have tried a great number."

"To hear you speak, one would think it was my fault that we have so many
bad servants."

"I never said it was your fault; but I THINK, dearest, a little more
forbearance in trifles"--

"Trifles! trifles--for a mistress and maid to be seen dressed alike in
the same church? You take the servants' part against me, that you do."

"You should not say that, even in jest. Come now, do you really think
a jacket like yours can make the servant look like you, or detract from
your grace and beauty? There is a very simple way; put your jacket by
for a future occasion, and wear something else in its stead at church."

"A nice thing, indeed, to give in to these creatures. I won't do it."

"Why won't you, this once?"

"Because I won't--there!"

"That is unanswerable," said he.