Leave that to me.

No man living shall say 'Yes' or 'No' to me where you are concerned, Iris." "Do not be hard with him, Philip dear.

He was always good to me, and--and--I have grown a wee bit afraid of you." "Afraid!" "Yes.

You are so much older, so much sterner, than when you and I looked at the Southern Cross together from the bridge of the _Andromeda_." "I was a boy then, Iris.

I am a man now.