I firmly believe that in marrying me you will be SAFE.

As I said just now," he went on with a smile, "I have no bad ways.

I can DO so much for you.

And if you are afraid that I am not what you have been accustomed to, not refined and delicate and punctilious, you may easily carry that too far.

I AM delicate! You shall see!" Madame de Cintre walked some distance away, and paused before a great plant, an azalea, which was flourishing in a porcelain tub before her window.