She comes this evening, and I shall question her pretty severely.

Doctor Middleton, what do you know of this young person ?" "I know, madam, that she is very healthy and strong, or I should not have selected her." "But is her character good ?" "Really, madam, I know little about her character; but you can make any inquiries you please.

But at the same time I ought to observe, that if you are too particular in that point, you will have some difficulty in providing yourself." "Well, I shall see," replied Mrs Easy.

"And I shall feel," rejoined the husband.
This parleying was interrupted by the arrival of the very person in question, who was announced by the housemaid, and was ushered in.

She was a handsome, florid, healthy-looking girl, awkward and naive in her manner, and apparently not over wise; there was more of the dove than of the serpent in her composition.
Mr Easy, who was very anxious to make his own discoveries, was the first who spoke.