"They can endure a deal more than you think.
I wish you had heard how she bullied me, in this very place.

My good fellow, you don't understand women.

The grand secret, in dealing with a woman, is to take her as you take a cat, by the scruff of the neck--" "I can't face her--unless you will help me by breaking the thing to her first.

I'll stick at no sacrifice to serve you; but--hang it!--make allowances, Geoffrey, for the difficulty you are putting me in.

I am almost a stranger; I don't know how Miss Silvester may receive me, before I can open my lips." Those last words touched the question on its practical side.