"John!" said Fanny, laughing in her little, weak, nervous way. "How you profess to understand these Hales, and how you never will allow that we can know anything about them. Are they really so very different to most people one meets with?"
She did not mean to vex him; but if she had intended it, she could not have done it more thoroughly. He chafed in silence, however, not deigning to reply to her question.

'John!' said Fanny, laughing in her little, weak, nervous way. 'How you profess to understand these Hales, and yet make out they are so different to most people.'
She did not mean to vex him; but she could not have done it more thoroughly. He was silent.
