'I saw some rooms upstairs at the end of a long passage which don't seem to have been used for years.
You might keep my lady in one of those; and that fine husband of hers would be as puzzled where to find her as if she was in the centre of Africa.

It would be a very easy thing to do,' he said; 'and it would be only friendly in you to do it.'" "O, Stephen!" cried his wife reproachfully, "how could you ever consent to such a wicked thing ?" "I don't know about the wickedness of it," Mr.Whitelaw responded, with rather a sullen air; "a daughter is bound to obey her father, isn't she?
and if she don't, I should think he had the power to do what he liked with her.

That's how I should look at it, if I was a father.

It's all very well to talk, you see, Nell, but you don't know the arguments such a man as that can bring to bear.

I didn't want to do it; I was against it from the first.