It is true, they were a good-natured and respectable set of servants, who had lived so long in their places that they might be said, by a happy contagion, to have caught kindly feelings from their superiors, and, having assisted in saving the lives of the young ladies, gave them an interest in their pleasures, and a real delight in seeing those fair young faces lighted up with joy.

He cried out, as if he meant it as a joke, When I was Richard's age I nearly died of pneumonia. Darling, it is cold, Ariah meeped, and put her mitten on his.

Direction of the principal characters is effective, but the crowd scenes tend to the lumpish, with a paradoxically static feel, despite the overt busyness of it all.

For me, I could not give a stuff who is vegetarian, chickenarian or what. It is up to them, just hope they make a good judgement.