"Might not that have made her still more proud, grandmother?" says Watt, who has been home and come back again, he is such a good grandson.
"More and most, my dear," returns the housekeeper with dignity, "are words it's not my place to use--nor so much as to hear--applied to any drawback on my Lady."
"I beg your pardon, grandmother. But she is proud, is she not?"
"If she is, she has reason to be. The Dedlock family have always reason to be."
"Well," says Watt, "it's to be hoped they line out of their prayer-books a certain passage for the common people about pride and vainglory. Forgive me, grandmother! Only a joke!"

"Might not that have made her still more proud, grandmother?" says Watt, who has come to visit again, he is such a good grandson. "She is proud, is she not?"
"If she is, she has reason to be. The Dedlock family have always reason to be."
