Mrs Boffin, as I've mentioned, is a highflyer at Fashion; at present I'm not.

I don't go higher than comfort, and comfort of the sort that I'm equal to the enjoyment of.

Well then.

Where would be the good of Mrs Boffin and me quarrelling over it?
We never did quarrel, before we come into Boffin's Bower as a property; why quarrel when we HAVE come into Boffin's Bower as a property?
So Mrs Boffin, she keeps up her part of the room, in her way; I keep up my part of the room in mine.

In consequence of which we have at once, Sociability (I should go melancholy mad without Mrs Boffin), Fashion, and Comfort.