Cutting people off in meetings would have mattered less if he was not also the sort of person to describe work he received as " utterly useless" and " woeful" .
Th' ou'd parson would ha' fretted his woman's heart out, if he'd seen the woeful looks I have seen on our measter's face, ' thought Higgins, one day, as he was approaching Mr. Thornton in Marlborough Street.