Maintain you! I believe he thinks that we are beggars.

Leave this house because of my conduct! What can Mrs.Stanbury have said?
What can any of them have said?
I will demand to be told.

Free himself from the connection! Oh, Nora, Nora! that it should come to this!--that I should be thus threatened, who have been as innocent as a baby! If it were not for my child, I think that I should destroy myself!" Nora said what she could to comfort her sister, insisting chiefly on the promise that the child should not be taken away.

There was no doubt as to the husband's power in the mind of either of them; and though, as regarded herself, Mrs.Trevelyan would have defied her husband, let his power be what it might, yet she acknowledged to herself that she was in some degree restrained by the fear that she would find herself deprived of her only comfort.
"We must just go where he bids us,--till papa comes," said Nora.
"And when papa is here, what help will there be then?
He will not let me go back to the islands,--with my boy.

For myself I might die, or get out of his way anywhere.