It would be a very delicate matter for another person to undertake to administer the dose.
With your cousin it will be different; he'll miss his father immensely.
But I should never presume to condole with Mr.Ralph; we're not on those terms." Madame Merle had alluded more than once to some undefined incongruity in her relations with Ralph Touchett; so Isabel took this occasion of asking her if they were not good friends.
"Perfectly, but he doesn't like me." "What have you done to him ?" "Nothing whatever.

But one has no need of a reason for that." "For not liking you?
I think one has need of a very good reason." "You're very kind.

Be sure you have one ready for the day you begin." "Begin to dislike you?
I shall never begin." "I hope not; because if you do you'll never end.

That's the way with your cousin; he doesn't get over it.

It's an antipathy of nature--if I can call it that when it's all on his side.