Jem: "At home" and your husband's house are two very different places.

Kitty: So I find!

Jem: And I have told you over and over again I detest to see any woman—more especially a girl of eighteen, like yourself—tramping over the moors in gaiters, and a skirt by a long way too short!

Kitty: Perhaps, with your old-maidish ideas, you would like to see me taking my walks abroad with a train as long as my Court frock!

Jem: Perversity!

Kitty: I only know that papa, mamma, and grandmamma always said—

Jem: Ah! But your grandmother——

Kitty: How dare you speak in that way of dear grandmamma?

Jem: I never said a word against her——

Kitty: But you were going to!