"Girls who suffer like that aren't so very bad."
"You take her part, as you've always done. She's hopelessly bad, and I'm as convinced as I'm sitting here that it was she who led poor Charlie astray."
"It's all very unfortunate," said Devitt moodily.
"And we all but had her in the house," urged Mrs Devitt, much irritated at her husband's tacit support of the girl.
"Anyway, she's far away from us now," said Devitt.
"Where has she gone?" asked Miss Spraggs.
"Somewhere in Dorsetshire," Devitt informed her.
"If she hadn't gone, I should have made it my duty to urge her to leave Melkbridge," remarked Mrs Devitt.
"She's not so bad as all that," declared Devitt.
"I can't understand why men stand up for loose women," said his wife.