Come with me, and I promise that I will show you how to make it great.

You have no relatives or any ties.

I promise you that I will be a model stepmother." I looked at her, bewildered.
"It is not possible for me to do anything of the sort," I told her.

"I do not wish to seem unkind, but nothing in this world would induce me to consider such a thing for a moment.

I have chosen my life and the manner of it.