As soon as that phrase "of course" had passed her lips, she felt that it should not have been spoken.

There was no need that she should insult him by telling him that such a proposition from him could have but one answer.
"No, Miss Clavering; I know you have never thought of it, and therefore it would be well that you should take time.

I have not been able to make manifest to you by little signs, as men do who are less awkward, all the love that I have felt for you.

Indeed, could I have done so, I should still have hesitated till I had thoroughly resolved that I might be better with a wife than without one, and had resolved also, as far as that might be possible for me, that you also would be better with a husband." "Mr.Saul, really that should be for me to think of." "And for me also.

Can any man offer to marry a woman--to bind a woman for life to certain duties, and to so close an obligation, without thinking whether such bonds would be good for her as well as for himself?
Of course, you must think for yourself--and so have I thought for you.