"Your taking the child down yourself, those days, and your coming, each time, to bring him away--nothing in the world, nothing you could have invented, would have kept father more under the charm.

Besides, you know how you've always suited him, and how you've always so beautifully let it seem to him that he suits you.

Only it has been, these last weeks, as if you wished--just in order to please him--to remind him of it afresh.
So there it is," she wound up; "it's your doing.

You've produced your effect--that of his wanting not to be, even for a month or two, where you're not.

He doesn't want to bother or bore you--THAT, I think, you know, he never has done; and if you'll only give me time I'll come round again to making it my care, as always, that he shan't.