How often have I impressed upon you that beauty depends upon understanding?
I don't suppose you have even tried to understand this room?
No?
Will it help any if I tell you that Mrs.Sykes went without a spring bonnet that she might purchase the deep gold frame which enshrines Victoria the Good, or if I explain that Joseph Sykes, deceased, whose name you see yonder upon that engraved plate, was the most worthless rogue unhung.

Yet the silver which displays--" "Not in the least," interrupted the other hastily.

"The place is a nightmare.

Nothing can excuse it! And you--how you stand it I cannot see." "My dear man, I don't stand it.

I am not allowed to.