Have you not?
I thought I had heard of a widow Barcop in this parish.

Do not protest.

I assure you I am a stranger to jealousy.

My income...' The General raised his hands.
'Well, then,' said the cool and self-contained lady, 'before I go farther, I may ask you, knowing what you have forced me to confess, are you still of the same mind as to marriage?
And one moment, General.

I promise you most sincerely that your withdrawing a step shall not, as far as it touches me, affect my neighbourly and friendly sentiments; not in any degree.