I could _never_ have borne it _all_ by myself.

Could I ?" "Perhaps not," thinking it over; "but you are very brave." "I don't think I'm brave," thinking it over on her own part, "but it seemed as if there were things I _must_ do.

But now you will advise me." She was as biddable as a child, he told his wife afterwards, and that a woman of her height and carriage should be as biddable as she might have been at six years old, was an effective thing.
"She will do anything I tell her, she will go anywhere I advise.

I advise that she shall go to her husband's house in Berkeley Square, and that together you and I will keep unobtrusive guard over her.

All is quite simple, really.