I could not let you go to the house of other people--you to lack consideration, perhaps to meet unkindness! Rather than that, you shall stay in your own home, or I will not return to Oxford at all.' Emily stood in anxious thought.

He drew a step nearer to her; seemed about to draw nearer still, but checked himself as she looked up.
'I fear we must not do that,' she said.

'Mrs.Rossall would not forgive me.' Woman's judgment of woman, and worth much more than Wilfrid's rough and ready scheming.
Wilfrid smiled.
'Then she also shall know,' he exclaimed.

'She shall take nay view of this; I will not be gainsaid.

What is there in the plan that common sense can object to?
Your position is not that of a servant; you are from the first our friend you honour us by the aid you give, efficient as few could make it.