You mean I ought to have had a big house, and made a show.

Isn't that it ?' 'You gave us a good education,' replied Nancy, still in the same tone, 'and we might have associated with very different people from those you have been speaking of; but education alone isn't enough.

One must live as the better people do.' 'Exactly.

That's your way of thinking.

And how do you know that I could afford it, to begin with ?' 'Perhaps I oughtn't to have taken that for granted.' 'Perhaps not.