A woman without the slightest distinction of manner, or the slightest aspiration beyond her nursery and her kitchen, her piano and her books.

Is _that_ a wife who can help me to make my place in society ?--who can smooth my way through social obstacles and political obstacles, to the House of Lords?
By Jupiter! if ever there was a woman to be 'buried' (as you call it), that woman is my wife.

And, what's more, if you want the truth, it's because I _can't_ bury her here that I'm going to leave this house.

She has got a cursed knack of making acquaintances wherever she goes.

She'll have a circle of friends about her if I leave her in this neighborhood much longer.