I know well enough that you are not sitting here beside me because you like to be here.

Who compels you to?
I certainly shall not prevent anybody's petticoat from going away by laying hold of it.

The gate is not closed.

Nothing easier than to be off.

Yet nobody likes the idea, eh?
Ah-ha! It is possible that when the eye of old Lapussa no longer sees, the heart of old Lapussa may no longer remember.