I'll warrant he's smarting under it.
If once we can find cause to lay Caryll by the heels, the fear of the consequences should bring his lordship to his senses.

'Twill be my turn then." "But you'll do nothing that--that will hurt your father ?" she enjoined him, her hand upon his shoulder.
"Trust me," he laughed, and added cynically: "It would hardly sort with my interests to involve him.

It will serve me best to frighten him into reason and a sense of his paternal duty.".