"Jed."
"A very plebeian name."
"It isn't exactly fashionable, but names are not important."
"I beg your pardon. I think names are important."
"Perhaps that is the reason you have never changed yours, Maria. You might have been Mrs. Boggs if you had been less particular."
"I would rather remain unmarried all my life. But where did you pick up this boy?"
"I met him in the hotel."
"Was he boarding here?"
"No; I think he was boarding somewhere in the village."
"Do you know anything of his family?"