"I'll take hold and turn it round the other way."
"I think it is quite likely you will! I should like to know what you mean to do with us, now you have got us here."
"Keep you here."
"What are you going to do with yourself, Mr. Copley?"
"There are always so many uses that I can make of myself, more than I have time for, that I cannot tell which I shall take hold of first."
With which utterance he quitted the room, almost before it was fairly out of his mouth. The two left behind sat and looked at the room, and then at each other.
"What are we going to do now, Dolly?" Mrs. Copley asked in evidently dismayed uncertainty.
"I don't know, mother."
"How long do you suppose your father will be contented to stay in this house?"
"I have no means of guessing, mother. I don't know why we are here at all."