I would rather you went out.

I must remain here in this horrid, dull, wretched place; but that is no reason why you should be buried alive.
I would much rather that you went out sometimes." "No, mamma; I will remain with you." "It will be quite right that you should go to Castle Richmond to-morrow.

If they send their carriage round here for you--" "It'll only be the car." "Well, the car; and if the girls come all that way out of their road in the morning to pick you up, it will be only civil that you should go back by Castle Richmond, and you would enjoy an evening there with the girls very much." "But I said decidedly that I would not go." "Tell them to-morrow as decidedly that you have changed your mind, and will be delighted to accept their invitation.

They will understand that it is because you have spoken to me." "But, mamma--" "You will like going; will you not ?" "Yes; I shall like it." And so that matter was settled.

On the whole, Lady Desmond was inclined to admit within her own heart that her daughter had behaved very well in that matter of the banishment of Owen Fitzgerald.