text:  For 'spose a case;--'spose it had been my sister as married Mrs Whalley instead of me--it's probable there wouldn't have been no great fambly; wich in cooss if there was no poppleation"-- But what the fearful result of this supposed case would have been has never been discovered; for Miss Hendy making a signal to the four representatives of the female sex started out of the room as if she had heard Mr Whalley had the plague and left the gentlemen to themselves