"I can explain to you the nature of the family arrangement, but I can't do that to a stranger. However, I don't mind."

"You'll hardly believe it when I tell you; and, indeed, I hardly know whether I ought to tell you or not."

"I'm not a person apt to tell secrets, but I shan't swear anything."

"And if you run away you'll only make more of the thing than it's worth. Of course I can't make you dine with me if you don't like."

"I can't say anything about that, but I know that she wouldn't take you. I like farming, you know, but she doesn't."

"But he will never come back. He will never ask us to forgive him, or even wish it. He has no heart."

"Yes; I did love you. But we were separated, and there was no room for love left between us."

"You're not going to frighten me in that hobgoblin sort of way, you know. I don't see anything the matter with any of the people."

"Nothing especially to offend me, Mr. Palliser,—except that he had a way that I especially dislike of trying to make little secret confidences."

"As far as the forgiveness goes, they would tell the truth. But, indeed, Alice, I don't very much care what men do say of me."

"That wasn't my fault. Putting you there cost me over a hundred pounds, and you consented to take the place."

"Nothing of the kind will suit me at all. I don't want to have anything to do with you."

"Then it will be put off for another year or two, and you are both of you as old as Adam and Eve already."

"I haven't said that I did wish it. But I hate scenes, and I think it would have been pleasanter for us to have parted without any occasion for special words."

"If money can do anything, he shall have it."

"I do not see why you should not borrow her money,—or mine. You shall call it which you will."

"Sometimes I think nobody has ever been so stupid as I have."

"I may have my own opinion about that, you know."

"I am so sorry that you should have had the trouble."

"I hope nothing that I have ever said has driven you to it."