"Go on, Matthew."
"There is a saying as how 'you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.'"
"I've heard that."
"Just so, sir. Now, Miss Thoroughbung is a very nice lady."
"I don't think she's a nice lady at all."
"But—Of course it's not becoming in me to speak against my betters, and as a menial servant I never would."
"Go on, Matthew."
"Miss Thoroughbung is—"
"Go on, Matthew."
"Well;—she is a sow's ear. Ain't she, now? The servants here never would have looked upon her as a silk purse."