Why do you look at me like that?
You're not going to stop my going, are you?
You're not going to _try_ and stop me, are you?
For you won't succeed.

Oh yes, I know I've been an obedient wife, Timothy.

But I--I defied you once before for Peter's sake; when he was such a little boy, and you wanted to punish him--don't you remember ?" "Don't talk so, Mary," said Sir Timothy, almost soothingly.

Her vehemence really alarmed and distressed him.

"It is not like you to talk like this.