'I'm better already.' And indeed she did appear to have plucked up her spirits.
Joe expressed his gratitude to Providence for this favourable dispensation, and tried to look as if he didn't wonder where Dolly was.
'You're sad people at Chigwell, Mr Joseph,' said Mrs V.
'I hope not, ma'am,' returned Joe.
'You're the cruellest and most inconsiderate people in the world,' said Mrs Varden, bridling.

'I wonder old Mr Willet, having been a married man himself, doesn't know better than to conduct himself as he does.

His doing it for profit is no excuse.

I would rather pay the money twenty times over, and have Varden come home like a respectable and sober tradesman.

If there is one character,' said Mrs Varden with great emphasis, 'that offends and disgusts me more than another, it is a sot.' 'Come, Martha, my dear,' said the locksmith cheerily, 'let us have tea, and don't let us talk about sots.