"I have called, but you have never been at home." "You were careful to choose the wrong times.

You have a way with a poor girl! You sit down and inform her that she is a person with whom a respectable young man cannot associate without contamination; your friend is a very nice fellow, you are very careful of his morals, you wish him to know none but nice people, and you beg me therefore to desist.

You request me to take these suggestions to heart and to act upon them as promptly as possible.

They are not particularly flattering to my vanity.

Vanity, however, is a sin, and I listen submissively, with an immense desire to be just.