Now, if her uncle had still been in communication with her, was it not a very likely thing that he would have felt a desire to--in fact, to do something for them?
It was not nice to begin married life in furnished lodgings, especially if prudence dictated the living in a single room, as such numbers of her acquaintances did.

Totty had discovered that couples who wedded and went to live in one furnished room seldom got along well together.

It was well if the wife did not shortly go about with ugly-looking bruises on her face, or with her arm in a sling.

No, to be sure, Luke Ackroyd was not a man of that kind; it was inconceivable that he should ever be harsh to her, let alone brutal.

Still, it was _not_ nice to begin in furnished lodgings.