'Because of her dialect.'
'No, Sylvana, because of her beauty. How can you be so disagreeable?'
'Mother, send back the tureen as not suited, and cancel your engagement to the butler.'
'Sylvana! how offensively you put things! I am not engaged to any butler. It is the butler who is engaged by me.'
'Well, rid yourself of both.'
'I cannot; I have bought the plated tureen.'
'And the butler, bought also?'
'Engaged, as I said.'
'Then you are throwing away money that we can ill afford. When young Maskell came of age his father had a blaze of fireworks, and afterwards informed the youth he had nothing to give him and nothing to leave him; his inheritance was debts.'
'There is no analogy in the cases.'