Now we have, you see, with your assistance, contrived to separate him from dear Mary--" "With my assistance, Lady Arabella! I have given no assistance, nor have I meddled in the matter; nor will I." "Well, doctor, perhaps not meddled; but you agreed with me, you know, that the two young people had been imprudent." "I agreed to no such thing, Lady Arabella; never, never.

I not only never agreed that Mary had been imprudent, but I will not agree to it now, and will not allow any one to assert it in my presence without contradicting it:" and then the doctor worked away at the thigh-bones in a manner that did rather alarm her ladyship.
"At any rate, you thought that the young people had better be kept apart." "No; neither did I think that: my niece, I felt sure, was safe from danger.

I knew that she would do nothing that would bring either her or me to shame." "Not to shame," said the lady, apologetically, as it were, using the word perhaps not exactly in the doctor's sense.
"I felt no alarm for her," continued the doctor, "and desired no change.

Frank is your son, and it is for you to look to him.

You thought proper to do so by desiring Mary to absent herself from Greshamsbury." "Oh, no, no, no!" said Lady Arabella.
"But you did, Lady Arabella; and as Greshamsbury is your home, neither I nor my niece had any ground of complaint.