My niece can look after herself.

So can I.We do not need your aid, or welcome your interference." "You insinuate," I declared indignantly, "that your niece is one of your helpers! I do not believe it!" "Helpers in what ?" he asked, with upraised eyebrows.
"God knows!" I exclaimed, a little impatiently.

"What you do, or what you try to do, is not my business.

Felicia is.

That is why I have warned you." "Am I to have the honor, then ?" Delora asked, with a curl of his thin lips,-- "You are," I interrupted, "if you call it an honor, although to tell you frankly, as things are at present, I am not inclined to go about begging too many different people's permission.