David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Chapter 44 Page 11

‘I am not blaming you, Dora. We have both a great deal to learn. I am only trying to show you, my dear, that you must — you really must’ (I was resolved not to give this up) — ‘accustom yourself to look after Mary Anne.

Likewise to act a little for yourself, and me.’

‘I wonder, I do, at your making such ungrateful speeches,’ sobbed Dora. ‘When you know that the other day, when you said you would like a little bit of fish, I went out myself, miles and miles, and ordered it, to surprise you.’

‘And it was very kind of you, my own darling,’ said I. ‘I felt it so much that I wouldn’t on any account have even mentioned that you bought a Salmon — which was too much for two.