She was not strong.
"As for LOVE!" he cried, "you might as well ask a fly to love you! It'll love settling on you--" "Now, say no more," commanded Mrs.Morel.

"If you want to say these things, you must find another place than this.

I am ashamed of you, William! Why don't you be more manly.

To do nothing but find fault with a girl, and then pretend you're engaged to her!" Mrs.Morel subsided in wrath and indignation.
William was silent, and later he repented, kissed and comforted the girl.

Yet it was true, what he had said.