Moreover, it would very likely expose him to a snub, and he had no fancy for being snubbed by a man like Haddington.
"I can hardly do that.

I have no position.

I'm not her father, or uncle, or anything of that sort." "You might influence him." "No, he'd tell me to mind my own business.

To speak plainly, my dear lady, it isn't as if Kate couldn't take care of herself.

She could stop his attentions to-morrow if she liked.