"My dear, if he was good enough for Julia to marry he's good enough for us to talk of."
"She did him a very great honour."
"I daresay, but he was not unworthy of it. No such enlightened collection of beautiful objects has been made in England in our time."
"You think too much of beautiful objects!" Lady Agnes sighed.
"I thought you were just now lamenting that I think too little."
"It's very nice—his having left Julia so well off," Biddy interposed soothingly, as if she foresaw a tangle.
"He treated her en grand seigneur, absolutely," Nick went on.
"He used to look greasy, all the same"—Grace bore on it with a dull weight. "His name ought to have been Tallow."
"You're not saying what Julia would like, if that's what you are trying to say," her brother observed.
"Don't be vulgar, Grace," said Lady Agnes.