"As for our name and position, they, thank God! are where a mad marriage cannot unseat them.

We have had much prosperity in the world, my wife; we have had neither death nor dishonour; we--" "If this isn't dishonour, father, what is ?" Marion flashed out.
He answered calmly.

"My daughter, it is a great misfortune, it will probably be a lifelong trial, but it is not necessarily dishonour." "You never can make a scandal less by trying to hide it," said Richard, backing up his father.

"It is all pretty awkward, but I daresay we shall get some amusement out of it in the end." "Richard," said his mother through her tears, "you are flippant and unkind!" "Indeed, mother," was his reply, "I never was more serious in my life.
When I spoke of amusement, I meant comedy merely, not fun--the thing that looks like tragedy and has a happy ending.

That is what I mean, mother, nothing more." "You are always so very deep, Richard," remarked Marion ironically, "and care so very little how the rest of us feel about things.