'That will be easy.'
'I don't know; and you do not know. When is she coming?'
'In a few days, I expect her.'
'Young, of course. Well, mother, I really do not want anybody but you; but we'll do the best we can.'
'She is handsome, and quick, and has excellent manners. She would have made a good match last winter, at once,—if she had not been poor.'
'Are men such cads as that on this side the water too?'
'Cads, my dear!'
'I call that being cads. Don't you?'
'My boy, everybody cannot afford to marry a poor wife.'
'Anybody that has two hands can. Or a head.'