Do you think me wicked for tempting Providence?
I do not mean to annoy you with entreaties.

I have a little pride left, and a great deal of respect for you.

Yet I think, in spite of all you have said or can say, that one disappointed life may be as able to find happiness and repose in another, as to get them by sucking the young life-blood of a fresh soul." To this speech, which was unusually figurative for Carrington, Mrs.Lee could find no ready answer.

She could only reply that Carrington's life was worth quite as much as his neighbour's, and that it was worth so much to her, if not to himself, that she would not let him wreck it.
Carrington went on: "Forgive my talking in this way.

I do not mean to complain.