When I'm about, on the lands at home, I ain't extravagant, I can tell you." "Extravagance is a great vice." "Oh, I ain't extravagant in that sense;--not a bit in the world.

But when a man's enamoured, and perhaps looking out for a wife, he does like to be a little free, you know." "And are you looking out for a wife, Mr Cheesacre ?" "If I told you I suppose you'd only laugh at me." "No; indeed I would not.

I am not given to joking when any one that I regard speaks to me seriously." "Ain't you though?
I'm so glad of that.

When one has really got a serious thing to say, one doesn't like to have fun poked at one." "And, besides, how could I laugh at marriages, seeing how happy I have been in that condition ?--so--very--happy," and Mrs Greenow put up her handkerchief to her eyes.
"So happy that you'll try it again some day; won't you ?" "Never, Mr Cheesacre; never.

Is that the way you talk of serious things without joking?
Anything like love--love of that sort--is over for me.