You might take Miss Stackpole as your dame de compagnie; she'd keep people off very well.

I think, however, that it's a great deal better you should remain with me, in spite of there being no obligation.

It's better for several reasons, quite apart from your liking it.

I shouldn't think you'd like it, but I recommend you to make the sacrifice.

Of course whatever novelty there may have been at first in my society has quite passed away, and you see me as I am--a dull, obstinate, narrow-minded old woman." "I don't think you're at all dull," Isabel had replied to this.
"But you do think I'm obstinate and narrow-minded?
I told you so!" said Mrs.Touchett with much elation at being justified.
Isabel remained for the present with her aunt, because, in spite of eccentric impulses, she had a great regard for what was usually deemed decent, and a young gentlewoman without visible relations had always struck her as a flower without foliage.