You have no confidence in me, and you want to get me away into a quiet country place where I shall be under your eyes every moment.

It's much better to say that plainly.' 'That means you would consider it going to prison.' 'How could I help?
What other motive have you ?' He was prompted to make brutal declaration of authority, and so cut the knot.

Monica's unanswerable argument merely angered him.

But he made an effort over himself.
'Don't you think it best that we should take some step before our happiness is irretrievably ruined ?' 'I see no need for its ruin.

As I have told you before, in talking like that you degrade yourself and insult me.' 'I have my faults; I know them only too well.