"A very good sort of fellow; such a sort that he can hardly be better; a perfect gentleman."
"Indeed! And has he a perfect lady for his wife?"
"Mr. Gilmore is not married."
"What age is he?"
"I think he is thirty-three."
"With a nice estate and not married! What a chance you have left behind you, Mary!"
"Do you think, Walter, that a girl ought to wish to marry a man merely because he is a perfect gentleman, and has a nice estate and is not yet married?"
"They say that they generally do;—don't they?"
"I hope you don't think so. Any girl would be very fortunate to marry Mr. Gilmore—if she loved him."
"But you don't?"