"Do you know, I should be glad to think you won't have to leave us.

Mrs.Ryder has taken a fancy to you, and I myself shall miss you when you go." "You ask me to be your son's wife and you know nothing of my family," said Shirley.
"I know you--that is sufficient," he replied.
"No--no you don't," returned Shirley, "nor do you know your son.
He has more constancy--more strength of character than you think--and far more principle than you have." "So much the greater the victory for you," he answered good humouredly.
"Ah," she said reproachfully, "you do not love your son." "I do love him," replied Ryder warmly.

"It's because I love him that I'm such a fool in this matter.

Don't you see that if he marries this girl it would separate us, and I should lose him.

I don't want to lose him.