"You know I never have."
"I told you that he was at Perivale when Mrs. Winterfield died."
"And now he has proposed, and you are going to accept him? That will indeed be important. Is it so?—say. But don't I know it is so? Why don't you speak?"
"If you know it, why need I speak?"
"But it is so? Oh, Clara, I am so glad. I congratulate you with all my heart,—with all my heart. My dearest, dearest Clara! What a happy arrangement! What a success! It is just as it should be. Dear, good man! to come forward in that sensible way, and put an end to all the little family difficulties!"
"I don't know so much about success. Who is it that is successful?"
"You, to be sure."
"Then by the same measurement he must be unsuccessful."
"Don't be a fool, Clara."
"Of course I have been successful if I've got a man that I can love as my husband."