'You heard what I said to your wife just now ?' 'Polly heerd it,' said Toodle, jerking his hat over his shoulder in the direction of the door, with an air of perfect confidence in his better half.

'It's all right.' 'But I ask you if you heard it.

You did, I suppose, and understood it ?' pursued Mr Dombey.
'I heerd it,' said Toodle, 'but I don't know as I understood it rightly Sir, 'account of being no scholar, and the words being--ask your pardon--rayther high.

But Polly heerd it.

It's all right.' 'As you appear to leave everything to her,' said Mr Dombey, frustrated in his intention of impressing his views still more distinctly on the husband, as the stronger character, 'I suppose it is of no use my saying anything to you.' 'Not a bit,' said Toodle.