In my opinion you have made yourself cheap by such precipitate action.

He thinks he has only got to ask, and he can have." Magdalen did not answer.
"I don't understand you," continued the pained monitor.

"I have always had a certain respect for you, Magdalen, and when he came back I supposed you would give in to him in time if he pressed you without intermission, and was constant for a considerable period--say a couple of years; but I never thought it possible you would collapse like this.
I fear you have not taken his character sufficiently into consideration.
If I were in your place I should be afraid that Everard would not allow my nature free scope, or take an interest in my mental development, and that the sacrifices which make domestic life tolerable might have to be all on my side.

He is absolutely unworthy of you, and his nose is quite thick.

I daresay you have not remarked it, but I did at once.