They were careless people,Tom and Daisythey smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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