"How dare you come to my room with such horrid language!"
"You'll hear worse before long, if you keep on at this rate. My language is not so bad as your actions. If you don't have that girl back, and in double-quick time, too, I shall know how to make you!"
"You have taught me to believe you capable of anything."
"You shall at least find me capable of a good deal. Do you imagine, madam, I have found you a hair worse than I expected?"
"I never took the trouble to imagine anything about you."
"Then I need not ask you whether I married you to please you or to please myself?"
"You need not. You can best answer that question yourself."
"Then we understand each other."
"We do not, Mr. Redmain; and, if this occurs again, I shall go to Durnmelling."
She spoke with a vague idea that he also stood in some awe of the father and mother whose dread, however well she hid it, she would never, while she lived, succeed in shaking off. But to the husband it was a rare delight to speak with conscious rectitude in the moral chastisement of his wife. He burst into a loud and almost merry laugh.