Are you quite sure that even now you can refuse him without his complaining that you have trifled with him ?" "And are you quite sure," added Mrs.Lee, evasively, "that you have not been judging him much too harshly?
I think I know him better than you.
He has many good qualities, and some high ones.

What harm can he do me?
Supposing even that he did succeed in persuading me that my life could be best used in helping his, why should I be afraid of it ?" "You and I," said Carrington, "are wide apart in our estimates of Mr.
Ratcliffe.

To you, of course, he shows his best side.

He is on his good behaviour, and knows that any false step will ruin him.

I see in him only a coarse, selfish, unprincipled politician, who would either drag you down to his own level, or, what is more likely, would very soon disgust you and make your life a wretched self-immolation before his vulgar ambition, or compel you to leave him.