I am nothing of the kind.

I only expect everybody to play up." "Ah, but you make the rules!" laughed Sir Luke.

"I thought that young woman might have been a decided acquisition." "She hadn't the very beginnings of a social gift," declared his companion.

"A stubborn and rather stupid little person.

I am much afraid she will stand in her husband's way." "But suppose you blow up a happy home, by encouraging him to come without her?
I bet anything she is feeling jealous and ill-used.