Your asking me is the bitterest reproach to me for having ventured to join your festive board." "Upon my honour I didn't mean it, Mrs Greenow.

I didn't mean it, indeed." "I do not suspect you.

It would have been unmanly." "And nobody can say that of me.

There isn't a man or woman in Norfolk that wouldn't say I was manly." "I'm quite sure of that." "I have my faults, I'm aware." "And what are your faults, Mr Cheesacre ?" "Well; perhaps I'm extravagant.

But it's only in these kind of things you know, when I spend a little money for the sake of making my friends happy.