Mr.Mutimer has no doubt many excellent qualities; no doubt he is really an earnest and a well-meaning man.

But if I am asked to say more than that, it must be the truth--as it seems to me.

Please, mother dear, don't ask me to talk about him in future.
And there is something else I wish to say.

I do hope you won't be offended with me, but indeed I--I hope you will not ask me to go to the Manor again.

I feel I ought not to go.