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She is a lovable , warm-hearted , well-meaning , weak , vain , dissatisfied child ! He is a very fine , a very noble , a very blind , and irritatingly inconsiderate man ! On Wednesday he ordered dinner an hour earlier for his own convenience , and he never came home at all . On Friday he said he would be out all day , and walked in at one o'clock , bringing three visitors in his train , demanding a hot lunch . He also , it appears , is difficult about money , which is not in any sense meant to imply that he is mean , but simply that he wishes to give away as much as possible to other people , and to deny his own household in order to be able to do it . I was in the room one day when Delphine presented the monthly bills , and his face was a network of worry and depression . The grocer 's book was not included ; he asked for it , and said it had been missing some time .