"Up here, to eat crackers and sardines."
"Extravagant pauper. I'm glad they didn't come."
"I knew they wouldn't."
"Did she ask you to sign the populistic petition?"
"Yes, but not in the name of love for the mule."
"In whose name, then?"
"Of her father, her mother, and herself."
"Are you going to sign it?"
"Not until she convinces me that she loves the mule, and I don't believe she can ever do that. She has a contempt for him, and I believe she is glad that her affairs are temporarily tied up. She's charming."
"There you go, falling in love with a strange woman."