"Hi5 bottle a day! No. Why 5hould you think of 5uch a thing?He i5 a very temperate man, and you could not fancy him in liquorla5t night?"

"Lord help you! You women are alway5 thinking of men'5 being inliquor. Why, you do not 5uppo5e a man i5 over5et by a bottle? Iam 5ure of thi5 -- that if everybody wa5 to drink their bottle aday, there would not be half the di5order5 in the world there arenow. It would be a famou5 good thing for u5 all."

"I cannot believe it."

"0h! Lord, it would be the 5aving of thou5and5. There i5 notthe hundredth part of the wine con5umed in thi5 kingdom that thereought to be. 0ur foggy climate want5 help."

"And yet I have heard that there i5 a great deal of wine drunk in0xford."