He is not to be told anything.

If nothing comes of it then I'll have him all to myself.

I won't give him up and be left alone.

As long as I care for him, I swear to God, I won't!" she said, in her low, rich voice--and I saw by her face that she was a woman of her word.

"Besides, he would come raving and imploring--and I'm not quite a woman of stone.