"YOU WISH I HAD?

"Mr. Caudle, I'll not lie quiet in my own bed to be insulted. Oh,
yes, you DID mean to insult me. I know what you mean. You mean, if
I HAD been born a man, you'd never have married me. That's a pretty
sentiment, I think; and after the wife I've been to you. And now I
suppose you'll be going to public dinners every day! It's no use
your telling me you've only been to one before; that's nothing to do
with it--nothing at all. Of course you'll be out every night now. I
knew what it would come to when you were made a mason: when you were
once made a 'brother,' as you call yourself, I knew where the husband
and father would be;--I'm sure, Caudle, and though I'm your own wife,
I grieve to say it--I'm sure you haven't so much heart that you have
any to spare for people out of doors. Indeed, I should like to see
the man who has! No, no, Caudle; I'm by no means a selfish woman--
quite the contrary; I love my fellow-creatures as a wife and mother
of a family, who has only to look to her own husband and children,
ought to love 'em.

"A 'brother,' indeed! What would you say, if I was to go and be made
a 'sister'? Why, I know very well the house wouldn't hold you.

"WHERE'S YOUR WATCH?

"How should I know where your watch is? You ought to know. But to
be sure, people who go to public dinners never know where anything is
when they come home. You've lost it, no doubt; and 'twill serve you
quite right if you have. If it should be gone--and nothing more
likely--I wonder if any of your 'brothers' will give you another?