I foresaw consequences, and came as a friend.
I had hoped that, by mutual explanation, we should have come to a better understanding.

I am disappointed; but, perhaps, when you coolly reflect on what has passed, you will give me credit for my intentions, and think that my proposal was not an unreasonable one." Having said this, Mr.Falkland departed.

Through the interview he, no doubt, conducted himself in a way that did him peculiar credit.

Yet the warmth of his temper could not be entirely suppressed: and even when he was most exemplary, there was an apparent loftiness in his manner that was calculated to irritate; and the very grandeur with which he suppressed his passions, operated indirectly as a taunt to his opponent.
The interview was prompted by the noblest sentiments; but it unquestionably served to widen the breach it was intended to heal.
For Mr.Tyrrel, he had recourse to his old expedient, and unburthened the tumult of his thoughts to his confidential friend.

"This," cried he, "is a new artifice of the fellow, to prove his imagined superiority.