"I am very glad indeed to hear it," says Sir Leicester. "Highly creditable to you."
"Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet," returns Mr. Bucket very seriously, "I hope it may at one and the same time do me credit and prove satisfactory to all. When I depict it as a beautiful case, you see, miss," Mr. Bucket goes on, glancing gravely at Sir Leicester, "I mean from my point of view. As considered from other points of view, such cases will always involve more or less unpleasantness. Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite."
Volumnia, with her innocent little scream, supposes so.
"Aye, and even in gen-teel families, in high families, in great families," says Mr. Bucket, again gravely eyeing Sir Leicester aside. "I have had the honour of being employed in high families before, and you have no idea--come, I'll go so far as to say not even YOU have any idea, sir," this to the debilitated cousin, "what games goes on!"
The cousin, who has been casting sofa-pillows on his head, in a prostration of boredom yawns, "Vayli," being the used-up for "very likely."

"I am very glad indeed to hear it," says Sir Leicester. "Highly creditable to you."
"Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet," returns Mr. Bucket very seriously, "I hope it may do me credit and prove satisfactory to all. When I depict it as a beautiful case, you see, miss," he goes on, "I mean from my point of view. As considered from other points of view, such cases will always involve some unpleasantness. Very strange things come to our knowledge in families, miss."
Volumnia, with her innocent little scream, supposes so.
"Aye, even in high families, in great families," says Mr. Bucket, gravely eyeing Sir Leicester.
