It's a question of their doing as they should when together--which is another matter." "And how do you think then," the Colonel asked with interest, "that, when together, they SHOULD do?
The less they do, one would say, the better--if you see so much in it." His wife, at this, appeared to hear him.

"I don't see in it what YOU'D see.

And don't, my dear," she further answered, "think it necessary to be horrid or low about them.

They're the last people, really, to make anything of that sort come in right." "I'm surely never horrid or low," he returned, "about anyone but my extravagant wife.

I can do with all our friends--as I see them myself: what I can't do with is the figures you make of them.