Of course, if she does she'll probably ruin him and herself, too.

But I think she'll have enough sense of her position, of how to maintain it for herself, and for him and her children, not to be a fool." Meanwhile Craig was also cooling down.

He had meant every word he said--while he was saying it.

Only one self-convinced could have been so effective.

But, sobering off from his rhetorical debauch in the quiet streets of that majestic quarter, he began to feel that he had gone farther, much farther, than he intended.
"I don't see how, in self-respect, I could have said less," thought he.
"And surely the old woman isn't so lost to decency that she can't appreciate and admire self-respect." Still he might have spoken less harshly; might have been a little considerate of the fact that he was not making a stump speech, but was in the drawing-room of a high-born, high-bred lady.