"With a very tall woman."
"With gold hair and eyes like cows in pictures of Christ in a manger?"
"Yes. He loves her."
"How suitable."
"But it isn't. He has a red-haired wife."
"How unsuitable."
"Matthew, do be serious. I like him."
"How complicated."
"I told him I hated his air of perfunctory but restrained passion, and he laughed."
"Any one would have."