Only hark how she's a-going on now! You're the sensible one, cousin!' 'Tut, tut!' cried Charity.
'Oh! But you are! You know you are!' 'Mercy is a little giddy,' said Miss Charity.

But she'll sober down in time.' 'It'll be a very long time, then, if she does at all,' rejoined her cousin.

'Take a little more room.' 'I am afraid of crowding you,' said Charity.

But she took it notwithstanding; and after one or two remarks on the extreme heaviness of the coach, and the number of places it stopped at, they fell into a silence which remained unbroken by any member of the party until supper-time.
Although Mr Jonas conducted Charity to the hotel and sat himself beside her at the board, it was pretty clear that he had an eye to 'the other one' also, for he often glanced across at Mercy, and seemed to draw comparisons between the personal appearance of the two, which were not unfavourable to the superior plumpness of the younger sister.

He allowed himself no great leisure for this kind of observation, however, being busily engaged with the supper, which, as he whispered in his fair companion's ear, was a contract business, and therefore the more she ate, the better the bargain was.