“There are good men and good women in the world, Sue; men and women whose word is pure gold.”
“Whose, I’d like to know?”
“Miss Jewett’s.”
“Oh, of course!”
“And Gus Hammerton’s.”
“Oh, he’s as wise and stupid as an owl!”
“Dr. Johnson could think in Latin and I should not wonder if Gus could.”
“But he’s awkward and never talks nonsense, and he wears spectacles and has a tiny bald spot on the top of his head, the place where the wool ought to grow! The girls don’t run after him.”
“They are not wise enough.”
“He’s so old, too.”