"I believe," remarked Mr. Fox-Cordery, "that servants and their young men are in the habit of meeting in this way."
"I have been no better than a servant," retorted Charlotte, "and many a poor girl has left service to enter into a happy marriage."
"As you are going to do?"
"I do not know. What I wish you and mother to understand is that the three years have expired, and that we do not consider ourselves bound to you any longer."
"Never in the whole course of my life," said Mrs. Fox-Cordery, "did I listen to anything so unladylike and indelicate."
"What it is necessary for you to understand," said Mr. Fox-Cordery, "is that Mr. Dixon will not be permitted to visit you here."
"He will not come to see me here."
"Where, then?"
"I prefer not to tell you."
"You have some idea of a place of meeting?"