"HOW HAVE YOU USED ME?

"Oh, Mr. Caudle, how can you ask that question? It's well for you I
can't see you blush. HOW have you used me?

"Well, that the same tongue could make a speech like that, and then
talk as it did to-day!

"HOW DID YOU TALK?

"Why, shamefully! What did you say about your wedded happiness?
Why, nothing. What did you say about your wife? Worse than nothing:
just as if she were a bargain you were sorry for, but were obliged to
make the best of. What do you say?

"AND BAD'S THE BEST?

"If you say that again, Caudle, I'll rise from my bed.

"YOU DIDN'T SAY IT?

"What, then, did you say? Something very like it, I know. Yes, a
pretty speech of thanks for a husband! And everybody could see that
you didn't care a pin for me; and that's why you had 'em here:
that's why you invited 'em, to insult me to their faces. What?

"I MADE YOU INVITE 'EM?

"Oh, Caudle, what an aggravating man you are!