And pray let this be a warning, and insure at once.

However you look at it, he ought to pay.' Emmeline's temper had suffered much since she made the acquaintance of Miss Derrick.

Aforetime, she could discuss difference of opinion; now a hint of diversity drove her at once to the female weapon--angry and iterative assertion.

Her native delicacy, also, seemed to have degenerated.

Mumford could only hold his tongue and trust that this would be but a temporary obscurement of his wife's amiable virtues.
Cobb had written from Bristol, a week after the accident, formally requesting a statement of the pecuniary loss which the Mumfords had suffered; he was resolved to repay them, and would do so, if possible, as soon as he knew the sum.