I should indeed.

If it were possible, without compromising myself, I should like her to be told some morning that I had gone off with the curate." "How can you be so wicked, Violet!" "It would serve her right, and her countenance would be so awfully comic.

Mind, if it is ever to come off, I must be there to see it.

I know what she would say as well as possible.

She would turn to poor Gussy.