"I shall surely go some day. I might have been travelling ere now, but I disliked to leave you alone, after this trouble about Dora."
"There is no trouble about Dora, none at all. The running away o' the creature is a great satisfaction to me. I hate both her and her child."
"Robert is breaking his heart about them."
"And neglecting his business, and spending more money than he is making, looking for them. I might break my heart, too, but thanks be! I have more sense. Did I tell you the Crawford girls are coming to stay a week or two? I thought they would be a bit company to you. I suppose they can have the room next yours."
"Christina's room! Oh, mother, I wish you would put them somewhere else. You have a spare room."
"It is o'er near my own room. And they are apt to come home at night full o' chat and giggle, and get me wakened up and maybe put by all sleep for that night. What is wrong with the room next yours?"
"I don't like any one using Christina's room—and they will keep me awake."
"Nobody takes the least thought for my comfort."
"Why did you ask the Crawfords? You know Robert hates them."
"Robert is forgetting how to behave decently. He will at least have to be civil to the Crawfords, and that is a thing he has ceased to be either to you or me."