"Never mind about grammar when you want to produce effect. And I say, circumstances alters cases. And then, again—"
"There's no accounting for opinions;
Some likes apples, some likes inions."
"And Dick likes matrimony, it seems. Why shouldn't he?"
"Wasn't he always railing against it?"
"None the less likely to fall into it, for all that, Kate. And when he had our example set before him to follow, with the benefit of our experience—"
"Nonsense, Tom! Why, we have been man and wife any time these twenty years."
"Is it so long, Kate?" Tom asked.
"Of course it is; and here's Dick pretty near old enough to be your father—"
"Which he isn't," interposed the gentleman.
"You put me out, and make me forget what I was going to say, Tom, when you interrupt me like that," remonstrated the lady. "But what I mean is that at his age your brother Richard ought to be above such folly."