Let me see this person instead of you.

_May_ I ?" "Certainly not." "Might I see him _first,_ love ?" "You will not see him at all." "Charles!" "No, Bella; I cannot have these animals talking to my wife." "But, dear love, I am so full of forebodings.

You know, Charles, I don't often presume to meddle; but I am in torture about this man.

If you receive him, may I be with you?
Then we shall be two to one." "No, no," said Sir Charles, testily.

Then, seeing her beautiful eyes fill at the refusal and the unusual tone, he relented.