If it is to be continued,--I expect that your manner to me should be altered." "What am I to say ?" "Say what you feel." "I feel that I can't alter my manner, as you call it." "You do wish the engagement to be over then ?" "I did not say so.

The truth is, Mr.Morton, that there is some trouble about the lawyers." "Why do you always call me Mr.Morton ?" "Because I am aware how probable it is that all this may come to nothing.

I can't walk out of the house and marry you as the cookmaid does the gardener.

I've got to wait till I'm told that everything is settled; and at present I'm told that things are not settled because you won't agree." "I'll leave it to anybody to say whether I've been unreasonable." "I won't go into that.

I haven't meddled with it, and I don't know anything about it.