Many of his characters are either the creations of Boz or their children and he contrives to carry on the interweaving of their lives to an unbelievable extenteven when the fullest allowance has been made for the smallness of the world.

This accounts for that obviously characteristic want of clearly defined thought; in fact, they lack the die that stamps their thoughts, they have no clear thought of their own; in place of it we find an indefinite, obscure interweaving of words, current phrases, worn-out terms of speech, and fashionable expressions.

The details of the play are too well known for there to be any call to outrage the delicate interweaving of character and incident by translating the perfect scenes into clumsy prose.