So he pursued a new course.
"Don't you think it's rather hard on me ?" he continued.

"I'm a lone man in this house, with only one old woman to protect me, and I'm unmarried.
I've a reputation to lose, and there are lots of mothers and daughters hereabouts.

Besides, a medical practice is hard to get and not easy to keep.

What do you mean by making a refuge of me, when there's nothing for me in it, not even the satisfaction of going into the Divorce Court with you?
You wicked Mrs.Mazarine!" "Oh, don't speak like that!" Louise interjected.

"Please don't.