“The way Camille Barringcourt has behaved!”
“I knew you’d never manage it,” said the other.
“Manage what?”
“To get him up to the scratch.”
“You’ve failed often enough; you needn’t talk to me.
“I was talking to myself.”
“It’s scandalous the way that grey-haired old Agnes Crokerly gets into everything. The reason her brother’s never got married is because she never lets him out of her sight.”
“The reason he’s never got married,” said Miss Groggerton, “is because he’s no morals.”
“You know a good bit about people,” said Susiebelle, more respectfully.
“I should think I did! People are no better than pigs; they’re swine.”