Either I am to have the explanation that she has promised me, or I refuse to marry her.' How do you think Lady Janet took that?
She shut up her lips, and she spread out her hands, and she looked at me as much as to say, 'Just as you please! Refuse if you like; it's nothing to me!'" He paused for a moment.

Mercy remained silent, on her side: she foresaw what was coming.

Mistaken in supposing that Horace had left the house, Julian had, beyond all doubt, been equally in error in concluding that he had been entrapped into breaking off the engagement upstairs.
"Do you understand me so far ?" Horace asked.
"I understand you perfectly." "I will not trouble you much longer," he resumed.

"I said to Lady Janet, 'Be so good as to answer me in plain words.

Do you still insist on closing Miss Roseberry's lips ?' 'I still insist,' she answered.
'No explanation is required.