I wish to leave you.' His flushed eagerness could not at once adapt itself to another tone.
'No, you don't wish to leave me.

You want to see that I am a man of my word, that I mean what I say, and am not afraid to stick to it.

Emily, you don't leave me till you have promised to be my wife.

You're a noble girl.

You wouldn't be frightened into yielding.