She can't hurt me.

I am so fixed, and dry, and established, that nothing anybody says will affect me.

But mamma doesn't like it." "What is it she dislikes ?" "The idea that she is harbouring a married woman, of whom people say, at least, that she has a lover." "Is she to be turned out because people are slanderers ?" "Why should mamma suffer because this woman, who is a stranger to her, has been imprudent?
If she were your wife, Hugh--" "God forbid!" "If we were in any way bound to her, of course we would do our duty.
But if it makes mamma unhappy I am sure you will not press it.

I think Mrs.Merton has spoken to her.

And then Aunt Stanbury has written such letters!" "Who cares for Aunt Jemima ?" "Everybody cares for her,--except you and I.And now this man who has been here asking the servant questions has upset her greatly.