"Of course, he'll discover it all," said he, laughing.
"I know he will," she replied; "but when it's over, it's over, and that's all." Jemmy now met his son at the hall-door, and asked him if he knew where his mother had gone.
"I really cannot undertake to say," replied the other.

"Mrs.Burke, father, is a competent judge of her own notions; but I presume to think that she may take a drive upon her own car, without being so severely, if not ungenerously catechised about it.

I presume to think so, sir; but I daresay I am wrong, and that even that is a crime on my part." His father made no reply, but proceeded at an easy and thoughtful pace to join his men in the field where they were at labor.
Hycy, after his mother's return that evening, seemed rather in low spirits, if one could form any correct estimate of his character by appearances.

He was very silent, and somewhat less given to those broken snatches of melody than was his wont; and yet a close observer might have read in his deportment, and especially in the peculiar expression of his eye, that which seemed to indicate anything rather than depression or gloom.

His silence, to such an observer, might have appeared rather the silence of satisfaction and triumph, than of disappointment or vexation.
His father, indeed, saw little of him that night, in consequence of the honest man having preferred the hob of his wealthy and spacious kitchen to the society of his wife and son in the parlor.