"After all the trouble he's been giving us, too!" "Hanging'd be too good for that chap," said Bunting.
"Not if he's not responsible," said his wife sharply.

"I never heard of anything so cruel--that I never did! If the man's a madman, he ought to be in an asylum--that's where he ought to be." "Hark to her now!" Bunting looked at his Ellen with amusement.
"Contrary isn't the word for her! But there, I've noticed the last few days that she seemed to be taking that monster's part.

That's what comes of being a born total abstainer." Mrs.Bunting had got up from her chair.

"What nonsense you do talk!" she said angrily.

"Not but what it's a good thing if these murders have emptied the public-houses of women for a bit.