'You have seen how carefully and delicately poor Jack can work,' she said; 'you have seen him tempted to break out, and yet capable of restraining himself in my presence.

And, more than that, on the one occasion when he did lose his self-control, you saw how he recovered himself when he was calmly and kindly reasoned with.

Are you content, David, to leave such a man for the rest of his life to the chains and the whip ?' What could I say?
She was too considerate to press me; she only asked me to think of it.

I have been trying to think of it ever since--and the more I try, the more I dread the consequences if that madman is brought into the house." Fritz shuddered at the prospect.
"On the day when Jack comes into the house, I shall go out of it," he said.

The social consequences of my aunt's contemplated experiment suddenly struck him while he spoke.