The clearest was the one he put at once before her in the vernacular he had never taken the least pains to modify.

'She looks sick; I'd be worried about her if I were you.

Can't you rouse her ?' 'Rouse her?
She is always like that.

Only she was particularly tired last night.' 'A healthy young woman oughtn't to get so tired.

If she's always like that she always needs rousing.' 'Don't be ridiculous, Franklin.