"My cousin is, then, at the head of your house?" inquired Robert, when she was gone.
"Yes, certainly, and a capital manager she is, I can assure you."
"I should not have supposed her to be over-gifted with order."
"Formerly she had little enough; but she is greatly changed; you would not recognise her, my friend."
"She has at least retained her good looks, and she has done well, for she is really charming."
"Why, then, did you stand there like a post before her?"
"We were not very good friends, formerly, and I was afraid she might recollect it. By the way, Denis, how do you agree with Caroline?"
"With Caroline! how is it possible to do otherwise than agree with her, kind as she is?"
"Yet you used to be always quarrelling."
"Oh! that is a long time ago, when I was quite a child; but now, I would throw myself into the river to give her pleasure."