Why do you fear to awaken such a suspicion?
You do not speak to strangers.

You have not to claim our interest or consideration for the first time.

Be more yourself.

Take heart.

Any advice or assistance that I can give you, you know is yours of right, and freely yours.' 'What if I came, sir,' she rejoined, 'I who have but one other friend on earth, to reject your aid from this moment, and to say that henceforth I launch myself upon the world, alone and unassisted, to sink or swim as Heaven may decree!' 'You would have, if you came to me for such a purpose,' said Mr Haredale calmly, 'some reason to assign for conduct so extraordinary, which--if one may entertain the possibility of anything so wild and strange--would have its weight, of course.' 'That, sir,' she answered, 'is the misery of my distress.