"The club had nothing to do with it, my dear."
"What time did you come home on Saturday night;--or Sunday morning
I mean? Do you mean to tell me you didn't settle it there?"
"There was no nastiness, and no beastliness, and no drunkenness
about it. I told you before I went that I wouldn't take it"
"No;--you didn't. How on earth are you to go on if you chuck the
children's bread out of their mouths in that way?"
"You won't believe me. Do you ask Twentyman what sort of a man
Goarly is." The attorney knew that Larry was in great favour with
his wife as being the favoured suitor for Mary's hand, and had
thought that this argument would be very strong.
"I don't want Mr. Twentyman to teach me what is proper for my
family,--nor yet to teach you your business. Mr. Twentyman has his
own way of living. He brought home Kate the other day with hardly a
rag of her sister's habit left. She don't go out hunting any more."
"Very well, my dear."
"Indeed for the matter of that I don't see how any of them are to
do anything. What'll Lord Rufford do for you?"
"I don't want Lord Rufford to do anything for me." The attorney was
beginning to have his spirit stirred within him.
"You don't want anybody to do anything, and yet you will do nothing
yourself, just because a set of drinking fellows in a tap-room,
which you call a club--"
"It isn't a tap-room.
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