"But I'm not asking you to do anything very outrageous, and I shouldn't ask it at all if I didn't know you wanted to do it.

Besides, you promised.

It's generally considered the respectable thing to do to keep one's promises." That reached Dinah.

She wavered perceptibly.

"Lady Grace will be so vexed," she murmured.
He snapped his fingers in careless disdain.
She turned appealingly to Scott.