His passion was in the death-grapple with reason and humanity.
'If your regard for me is so strong,' Emily replied, 'should you not shrink from causing me pain?
And indeed you have no such right as you claim.

Have I in any way sought to win your affection?
Is it manly to press upon me a suit which you know it is out of my power to favour?
You say you respect me; your words are not consistent with respect.

I owe you nothing, Mr.Dagworthy, and it is certainly my right to demand that you will cease to distress and trouble me.' He stood with his eyes on the ground.
'That is all you have to say ?' he asked, almost sullenly.
'What more can I say?
Surely you should not have compelled me to say even so much.

I appeal to your kindness, to your sense of what is due from a man to a woman, to let me leave you now, and to make no further attempt to see me.

If you refuse, you take advantage of my powerlessness.