"Hugh!"
"Don't you think it would be better if we were married immediately?"
"Better than what?"
"Oh, I don't know; better than breaking it off."
"You can't break it off now. I'm not a person to be trifled with. You have gone too far."
"If you gave me half your attention, you would understand that I am only expressing a wish to go a little further, but you have become so frivolous since we have been engaged that I hardly recognize you."
"I suit myself to my company."
"Are you going to talk to me in that flippant manner when we are married. I sometimes fear, Rachel, you don't look upon me with sufficient awe. I foresee I shall have to be very firm when we are married. When may I begin to be firm?"
"Are these such evil days, Hugh?"
"I am like Oliver Twist," he said. "I want more."