Therefore it is I ask, What do you intend to do ?" The squire was bothered.

He had no intention whatever of doing anything, and no belief in his wife's assertion as to Dr Thorne's iniquity.

But he did not know how to get her out of the room.

She asked him the same question over and over again, and on each occasion urged on him the heinousness of the insult to which she personally had been subjected; so that at last he was driven to ask her what it was she wished him to do.
"Well, then, Mr Gresham, if you ask me, I must say, that I think you should abstain from any intercourse with Dr Thorne whatever." "Break off all intercourse with him ?" "Yes." "What do you mean?
He has been turned out of this house, and I'm not to go to see him at his own." "I certainly think that you ought to discontinue your visits to Dr Thorne altogether." "Nonsense, my dear; absolute nonsense." "Nonsense! Mr Gresham; it is no nonsense.

As you speak in that way, I must let you know plainly what I feel.