Her brother always declares that she is really a good woman." "I should certainly think he was right, dear." "Her goodness is rather microscopic then," returned Elizabeth drily.
"Mr.Carlyon--our Mr.Carlyon, you know--told me that it fretted him sadly to see how his father's little comforts were neglected.

Theo puts her parochial work before her home duties.

He said the meals were badly served and badly cooked; that Theo often came in late for dinner and took a hasty meal in her bonnet; that in the evening there was no sociality--his father wrote his sermons or buried himself in his books, and Theo worked at her accounts or dropped asleep from sheer fatigue on the couch." "Poor Mr.Carlyon, he deserves a better daughter; but Theo has always been a restless, bustling sort of mortal.

I suppose David--we really must call him David between ourselves, Betty, to distinguish him--I suppose he will have his father as usual in August ?" "Oh dear, yes; and Mrs.Pratt will lead them both a life.

She always does; I never saw such, a woman.