"Well, I think we could manage to give Mr. Thornton a dinner back, as you call it. Perhaps not in such a large room, nor with so many people. But I don't think we've thought about it at all in that way."
"I never thought yo'd be dining with Thorntons," repeated Bessy. "Why, the mayor hissel' dines there; and the members of Parliament and all."
"I think, I could support the honour of meeting the mayor of Milton."
"But them ladies dress so grand!" said Bessy, with an anxious look at Margaret's print gown, which her Milton eyes appraised at sevenpence a yard.

'Well, I think we could manage to give Mr. Thornton a dinner back. Perhaps not in such a large room, nor with so many people.'
'I never thought yo'd be dining with Thorntons,' repeated Bessy. 'Why, the mayor hissel' dines there. And them ladies dress so grand!' She gave an anxious look at Margaret's print gown, which her Milton eyes appraised at sevenpence a yard.
