He had become quite domesticated at the Burtons' house during the ten weeks that he had been in London, and knew his way to Onslow Crescent almost too well.

It may, perhaps, be surmised correctly that he would not have gone there so frequently if Mrs.Theodore Burton had been an ugly woman.
"It's all her fault," said he, continuing to snip a piece of worsted with a pair of scissors as he spoke.

"She's too prudent by half." "Poor Florence!" "You can't but know that I should work three times as much if she had given me a different answer.

It stands to reason any man would work under such circumstances as that.

Not that I am idle, I believe.