"I did not mean to say anything severe. I do admit that you are master of a certain philosophy, for which much may be said. But you are not to expect that I shall express an approval which I do not feel."
"But I want you to approve it."
"Ah!—there, I fear, I cannot oblige you."
"I want you to approve it, though no one else may."
"Though all else should do so, I cannot."
"Then take the task of curing the sick one, and of strengthening the weak one, into your own hands. If you will teach, perhaps I may learn."
"I have no mission for teaching, Mr. Maule."
"You once said that,—that—"
"Do not be so ungenerous as to throw in my teeth what I once said,—if I ever said a word that I would not now repeat."
"I do not think that I am ungenerous, Miss Palliser."