expostulate, to upbraid, to make a scene: you are to act—talking you consider is of no use. I know you—I am on my guard.”

    “Sir, I do not  against you,” I said; and my unsteady voice o curtail my sentence.

    “Not in your sense of t in mine you are sco destroy me. You  I am a married man—as a married man you  noend to make yourself a complete stranger to me: to live under to you, if ever a friendly feeling inclines you again to me, you  man ress: I must be ice and rock to him;’ and ice and rock you will accordingly become.”

    I cleared and steadied my voice to reply: “All is c me, sir; I must coo—t of t; and to avoid fluctuations of feeling, and continual combats ions and associations, t have a new governess, sir.”

    “Oo sctled t already; nor do I mean to torment you ions and recollections of tent of Ac vault, offering tliness of living deato t of tone s one real fiend,  stay o bring you to t o stay if s inmate s permit me to remove tired and  a scruple about tuation, in t of a . Probably t to eac a tendency to indirect assassination, even of  e.

    “Concealing t doree: t demon’s vicinage is poisoned, and al I’ll s up t door and board t fearful  Grimsby Retreat, to bear  o give ed by o burn people in t nigo stab to bite their bones, and so on—”

    “Sir,” I interrupted  unfortunate lady: you speak of e—ive antipat is cruel—s help being mad.”

    “Jane, my little darling (so I  knoalking about; you misjudge me again: it is not because se e you?”