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 62 sitting up—if I choose to sit up what's that to you? Some wives, indeed, would make a noise about sitting up, but you've no reason to complain—goodness knows!

"WHAT'S IT TO YOU, IF I LIKE TO SIT UP?"

"Well, upon my word, I've lived to hear something. Carry the street-door key about with you! I've heard of such things with young good-for-nothing bachelors, with nobody to care what became of 'em; but for a married man to leave his wife and children in a house with a door upon the latch—don't talk to me about