This is his sister, so I leave you to suppose what SHE is.

I shall be obliged to laugh outright, I know I shall!' cried the charming girl, 'I never shall be able to keep my countenance.

The notion of a Miss Pinch presuming to exist at all is sufficient to kill one, but to see her--oh my stars!' Mrs Todgers laughed immensely at the dear love's humour, and declared she was quite afraid of her, that she was.

She was so very severe.
'Who is severe ?' cried a voice at the door.

'There is no such thing as severity in our family, I hope!' And then Mr Pecksniff peeped smilingly into the room, and said, 'May I come in, Mrs Todgers ?' Mrs Todgers almost screamed, for the little door of communication between that room and the inner one being wide open, there was a full disclosure of the sofa bedstead in all its monstrous impropriety.