"The papers had plenty to say about it later.

There wasn't much he was too good to do to his wife, apparently." "There was nothing too bad for him to do before he had a wife," said Bettina.

"He was black.

It was an insolence that he should have dared to speak to Annie Butterfield.

Somebody ought to have beaten him." "He beat her instead." "Yes, and I think his family thought it quite natural.