I'm too old to change pinches." "Now, that does decide me." "It decides me, too." "I will take all the responsibility, Basil," she pleaded.
"Oh yes; but you'll hand it back to me as soon as you've carried your point with it.

There's nothing mean about you, Isabel, where responsibility is concerned.

No; if I do this thing--Fulkerson again?
I can't get away from 'this thing'; it's ominous--I must do it because I want to do it, and not because you wish that you wanted me to do it.

I understand your position, Isabel, and that you're really acting from a generous impulse, but there's nothing so precarious at our time of life as a generous impulse.

When we were younger we could stand it; we could give way to it and take the consequences.