It's very bad taste.

Very much like the pies mother used to make." "Silly!" cried Medcroft's wife, now in fine humour.
"Besides, Rox is an Englishman.

It would take him a year to produce a quarrel.

The American husband is not so confounded slow.

I won't live up to Roxbury in everything." It was decided that Constance should greet the Rodneys upon their arrival; the Medcrofts were not to appear until dinner time.