"Do not make such a noise, or someone will come to see what is the matter, and I shall have to get down from the piano, where I am very comfortable." "It is you who are jealous." "Oh, is it, Jane?
I have not allowed Sir Charles to fall in love with me yet, but I can do so very easily.

What will you wager that he will not kiss me before to-morrow evening ?" "It will be very mean and nasty of you if he does.

You seem to think that I can be treated like a child." "So you are a child," said Agatha, descending from her perch and preparing to go.

"An occasional slapping does you good." "It is nothing to you whether I agree with my husband or not," said Jane with sudden fierceness.
"Not if you quarrel with him in private, as wellbred couples do.

But when it occurs in my presence it makes me uncomfortable, and I object to being made uncomfortable." "You would not be here at all if I had not asked you." "Just think how dull the house would be without me, Jane!" "Indeed! It was not dull before you came.