You have to see your lawyer,--which means going to your club; or to attend to your tenants,--which means hunting and shooting." "I haven't got any tenants." "You know very well that you could remain over Sunday without doing any harm to anybody;--only you don't like going to church three times, and you don't like hearing my aunt read a sermon afterwards.
Why shouldn't you stay, and I go to the club ?" "With all my heart, if you can manage it." "But I can't; we ain't allowed to have clubs, or shooting, or to have our own way in anything, putting forward little pretences about lawyers." "Come, I'll stay if you'll ask me." "I'm sure I won't do that.

In the first place you'd go to sleep, and then she would be offended; and I don't know that your sufferings would make mine any lighter.

I'm not prepared to alter the ways of the world, but I feel myself entitled to grumble at them sometimes." Mrs.Winterfield inhabited a large brick house in the centre of the town.

It had a long frontage to the street; for there was not only the house itself, with its three square windows on each side of the door, and its seven windows over that, and again its seven windows in the upper story,--but the end of the coach-house also abutted on the street, on which was the family clock, quite as much respected in Perivale as was the town-clock; and between the coach-house and the mansion there was the broad entrance into the yard, and the entrance also to the back door.

No Perivalian ever presumed to doubt that Mrs.
Winterfield's house was the most important house in the town.