"So he tells me," returned my guardian. "Very good. He has made his protest, and Dame Durden has made hers, and there is nothing more to be said about it. Now I come to Mrs. Woodcourt. How do you like her, my dear?"
In answer to this question, which was oddly abrupt, I said I liked her very much and thought she was more agreeable than she used to be.
"I think so too," said my guardian. "Less pedigree? Not so much of Morgan ap--what's his name?"
That was what I meant, I acknowledged, though he was a very harmless person, even when we had had more of him.

"So he tells me," returned my guardian. "Very good. He has made his protest, and Dame Durden has made hers; and there is nothing more to be said about it. Now I come to Mrs. Woodcourt. How do you like her, my dear?"
In answer to this abrupt question, I said I liked her very much and thought she was more agreeable than she used to be.
"I think so too," said my guardian. "Not so much of Morgan ap - what's his name?"
That was what I meant, I acknowledged, harmless though he was.
