"An old complaint, my dear; but why ?" "She is so matter-of-fact.

I asked her, at last, what she was going to marry for, and she told me coolly, for convenience." Mrs.Bellairs' indignation made her husband laugh still more.

"They are well matched," he said; "Morton is as cool as she is.

He might be Bluebeard proposing for his thirteenth wife." "Well, _you_ may like it, but I don't.

If they care so little about each other now, what will they do when they have been married as long as we have ?" "My dear Elise, you and I were born too soon.