? ? ? ? 'A stranger or so makes an agreeable change,' suggested Peggotty.
? ? ? ? 'A very agreeable change, indeed,' returned my mother.
? ? ? ? Peggotty continuing to stand motionless in the middle of the room, and my mother resuming her singing, I fell asleep, though I was not so sound asleep but that I could hear voices, without hearing what they said. When I half awoke from this uncomfortable doze, I found Peggotty and my mother both in tears, and both talking.
? ? ? ? 'Not such a one as this, Mr. Copperfield wouldn't have liked,' said Peggotty. 'That I say, and that I swear!'
? ? ? ? 'Good Heavens!' cried my mother, 'you'll drive me mad! Was ever any poor girl so ill-used by her servants as I am! Why do I do myself the injustice of calling myself a girl? Have I never been married, Peggotty?'
? ? ? ? 'God knows you have, ma'am,' returned Peggotty. 'Then, how can you dare,' said my mother - 'you know I don't mean how can you dare, Peggotty, but how can you have the heart - to make me so uncomfortable and say such bitter things to me, when you are well aware that I haven't, out of this place, a single friend to turn to?'
? ? ? ? 'The more's the reason,' returned Peggotty, 'for saying that it won't do. No! That it won't do. No! No price could make it do.
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