'I know my girl better than you do, begging your ladyship's pardon.

No one thinks less of estates than she does.' 'Well, I only know I heard her talking of them, and earnestly too.' 'Yes, very likely; but don't you know that girls never think of what they are talking about, or rather never talk of what they are thinking about?
And they have always ten times more to say to the man they don't care for, than to him they do.' 'Very extraordinary!' said Lady Clonbrony.

'I only hope you are right.' 'I am sure of it,' said Mrs.Broadhurst.

'Only let things go on, and mind your cards, I beseech you, to-morrow night better than you did to-night; and you will see that things will turn out just as I prophesied.

Lord Colambre will come to a point-blank proposal before the end of the week, and will be accepted, or my name's not Broadhurst.
Why, in plain English, I am clear my girl likes him; and when that's the case, you know, can you doubt how the thing will end ?' Mrs.Broadhurst was perfectly right in every point of her reasoning but one.