But Mrs.Fairfax was a jolly dame who made the best of everything.

Lady Milborough raised her hands in despair, and shook her head.

"I don't suppose, though, that Mr.Glascock will go to Devonshire after his lady love," said Mrs.Fairfax.Lady Milborough again raised her hands, and again shook her head.
Mrs.Stanbury had given an easy assent when her son proposed to her this new mode of life, but Priscilla had had her doubts.

Like all women, she thought that when a man was to be separated from his wife, the woman must be in the wrong.

And though it must be doubtless comfortable to go from the cottage to the Clock House, it would, she said, with much prudence, be very uncomfortable to go back from the Clock House to the cottage.