In that case, she wouldn't stick at much." "But, do you know," said Mrs.Lovell--"do you know that Edward's father would be worse than yours over such an act of folly?
He would call it an offence against common sense, and have no mercy for it.

He would be vindictive on principle.

This story of yours cannot be true.

Nothing reconciles it." "Oh, Sir Billy will be rusty; that stands to reason," Algernon assented.
"It mayn't be true.

I hope it isn't.