Lady Bridget, who was an extraordinarily rapid eater, as well as a fastidious one, had finished long before he was half-way through.
She sat silent at first, while he growled over the outrage upon the horses.

Then suddenly visualising the poor beasts lying stiff in congealed blood, and the mailman's exaggerated description of trees black with crows, she flamed out in wrathful horror, and was as anxious as her husband that the perpetrators of the crime should be brought to justice.

He seemed pleased, and a little surprised at the ebullition.
'I thought you weren't taking it quite in, Biddy.

I am glad you think like me, though I expect yours is the humanitarian view and mine's the practical one.

This touches my pocket, you see.