Perhaps we have thought the more.
However, it is all vexation.

I am going away to Middleton Abbey, near Shottsford, where a relative of my late husband lives, who is confined to her bed.

The engagement was made in London, and I can't get out of it.

Perhaps it is for the best that I go there till all this is past.
When are you going to enter on your new practice, and leave Hintock behind forever, with your pretty wife on your arm ?" "I have refused the opportunity.

I love this place too well to depart." "You HAVE ?" she said, regarding him with wild uncertainty.
"Why do you ruin yourself in that way?
Great Heaven, what have I done!" "Nothing.