You don't care if people think you an utter blackguard? You don't care if she and your children have to beg their bread? Not a damn. I was silent for a moment in order to give greater force to my next remark. I spoke as deliberately as I could. You are a most unmitigated cad. Now that you've got that off your chest, let's go and have dinner.

Bonnet drama, conversely, removes us tidily from any such responsibility to a world of rules and rituals, where everyone knows their place...

the twigsome trees by the wayside

Noiselessly she laid the clematis and wattle on her bed, then stood near the covered face, and, looking down at her untied bootlaces, sighed an impatient sigh always well known and understood by this now unresponsive father.