Villain as he is, and as he knows he stands convicted in my eyes, I cannot--dare not, openly break with or defy him.
You also, Mr.Osbaldistone, must bear with him with patience, foil his artifices by opposing to them prudence, not violence; and, above all, you must avoid such scenes as that of last night, which cannot but give him perilous advantages over you.

This caution I designed to give you, and it was the object with which I desired this interview; but I have extended my confidence farther than I proposed." I assured her it was not misplaced.
"I do not believe that it is," she replied.

"You have that in your face and manners which authorises trust.

Let us continue to be friends.

You need not fear," she said, laughing, while she blushed a little, yet speaking with a free and unembarrassed voice, "that friendship with us should prove only a specious name, as the poet says, for another feeling.
I belong, in habits of thinking and acting, rather to your sex, with which I have always been brought up, than to my own.