Do you want to know how baby is?
Why don't you ask, then, as you ought to do the first thing?
He's a good deal better than he deserves to be, young rascal--all the trouble he gives me! He's fast asleep, I'm glad to say, so you can't see him.
Sam'll be back in a few minutes; at least I expect him, but there's no knowin' nowadays when lie can leave the warehouse.

What's brought you to-night, I wonder?
You needn't tell me anything about the Upper Street business; _I_ know all about _that_!' 'Oh, do you?
From Clara herself ?' 'Yes.

Don't talk to me about her! There! I'm sick an tired of her--an' so are you, I should think, if you've any sense left.

Her an' me can't get along, an' that's the truth.

Why, when I met her on Sunday afternoon, she was that patronisin' you'd have thought she'd got a place in Windsor Castle.