It has been put off too long already.

Let there be no reserve--no holding back--no concealment.

Do it calmly, mildly, yet earnestly, and my word for it, she will join you, heart and hand, in any measure of reform and safety that you may propose.

She were less than a woman, a wife, and a mother, not to do so.

You wrong her by doubt." "Perhaps I do," said Ellis in reply.