"You had better not abuse me, because I am listening," I put in.
"Oh, here you are. I was going to say you had resigned."
"If you had heard all your Visitor suggested you would have thrown up the living."
"Bumptious fellow! I should not have listened to him."
"But you told me to."
"Because I had had enough of him."
"But what he said was true. It is absolutely immoral to have that curveting path, that hideous paling, and this bisecting hedge."
"Well, Mary, I did give you credit for some common sense."
"It's un-common sense I am blessed with, and I am trying to educate you up to higher ideals for the garden."