She, the meanwhile, had resumed the old position with her face upon her hands, which she had abandoned when the servant entered the room, and was now sitting looking at him as he sipped his tea with his eyes averted from her.

"I cannot understand," at last he said, "why you should persist in your intimacy with such a woman." "You have not thought about it, Harry, or you would understand it.

It is, I think, very easily understood." "You know her to be treacherous, false, vulgar, covetous, unprincipled.
You cannot like her.

You say she is a dragon." "A dragon to you, I said." "You cannot pretend that she is a lady, and yet you put up with her society." "Exactly.

And now tell me what you would have me do." "I would have you part from her." "But how?
It is so easy to say, part.