"Yes; and my taste for jam. I never believed in the store-room at Aylmer Park as I did in my aunt's store-room here."
"I don't doubt but what it is full now."
"I dare say; but I shall never have the curiosity even to inquire. Ah, dear,—I wish I knew what to do about the house."
"You won't sell it, I suppose?"
"Not if I could either live in it, or let it. It would be wrong to let it stand idle."
"But you need not decide quite at once."
"That's just what I want to do. I want to decide at once."
"Then I'm sure I cannot advise you. It seems to me very unlikely that you should come and live here by yourself. It isn't like a country-house exactly."
"I shan't live there by myself certainly. You heard what Mrs. Partridge said just now."
"What did Mrs. Partridge say?"