'Very good, Sir,' responded Mrs. Raddle, with lofty politeness. 'Then p'raps, Sir, you'll confine yourself to breaking the arms and legs of the poor people in the hospitals, and keep yourself to yourself, Sir, or there may be some persons here as will make you, Sir.'
'But you are such an unreasonable woman,' remonstrated Mr. Benjamin Allen.
'I beg your parding, young man,' said Mrs. Raddle,in a cold perspiration of anger. 'But will you have the goodness just to call me that again, sir?'
'I didn't make use of the word in any invidious sense, ma'am,' replied Mr. Benjamin Allen, growing somewhat uneasy on his own account.