"I allays like to see folks eat," said Mrs. Armadale. "After one's done the gettin' things ready, I hate to have it all for nothin'."
"It shall not be for nothing this time, as far as I am concerned."
"Ain't the air good in New York?" Mrs. Armadale next asked.
"I do not think it ever was so sweet as this. But when you crowd a million or so of people into room that is only enough for a thousand, you can guess what the consequences must be."
"What do they crowd up so for, then?"
"It must be the case in a great city."
"I don't see the sense o' that," said Mrs. Armadale. "Ain't the world big enough?"
"Far too big," said Mr. Dillwyn. "You see, when people's time is very valuable, they cannot afford to spend too much of it in running about after each other."
"What makes their time worth any more'n our'n?"
"They are making money so fast with it."