"What has brought you home so early? I thought you were going to tea with that friend of Mr. Bell's; that Mr. Hale?"
"So I am, mother. I am come home to dress!"
"Dress! humph! When I was a girl, young men were satisfied with dressing once in a day. Why should you dress to go and take a cup of tea with an old parson?"
"Mr. Hale is a gentleman, and his wife and daughter are ladies."

'What has brought you home so early? I thought you were going to tea with that Mr. Hale.'
'So I am, mother; I am come home to dress!'
'Dress! humph! Why should you dress to go and take a cup of tea with an old parson?'
'Mr. Hale is a gentleman, and his wife and daughter are ladies.'
