Jemima! no.

They might roll them, and roll them, and roll them, right round to the back of their heads; 'twouldn't have an atom of effect on me." He waited to see some result from this avowal, but Eliza was looking at him as coldly as ever.
"In that respect," he added, "there ain't no one that interferes with your prerogative." Eliza looked as if he had spoken in a foreign tongue.

"I do not understand," she said, and in this she told a lie, but she told it so successfully that he really did not know whether she had understood, or whether it behooved him to speak more plainly.
Before he could make up his mind, she had taken her departure.

When she was gone he stood looking darkly, wishing he knew how to hasten the day when she should change her aspect to him..