The very respectable man who brushes my clothes no doubt does so.

But then you see he has been brought up in that way.

I suppose that you as a bachelor put by every year at least half your income ?" "I never put by a shilling, sir.

Indeed, I owe a few hundred pounds." "And yet you expect to keep a house over your head, and an expensive wife and family, with lady's maid, nurses, cook, footman, and grooms, on a sum which has been hitherto insufficient for your own wants! I didn't think you were such an idiot, my boy." "Thank you, sir." "What will her dress cost ?" "I have not the slightest idea." "I dare say not.

Probably she is a horsewoman.