'Quilp is my name.

You might remember.

It's not a long one--Daniel Quilp.' 'Harkee, Mr Quilp, then,' pursued the other, 'You have some influence with my grandfather there.' 'Some,' said Mr Quilp emphatically.
'And are in a few of his mysteries and secrets.' 'A few,' replied Quilp, with equal dryness.
'Then let me tell him once for all, through you, that I will come into and go out of this place as often as I like, so long as he keeps Nell here; and that if he wants to be quit of me, he must first be quit of her.

What have I done to be made a bugbear of, and to be shunned and dreaded as if I brought the plague?
He'll tell you that I have no natural affection; and that I care no more for Nell, for her own sake, than I do for him.

Let him say so.