'What if you should find him already so disposed?'
'Impossible. Or if he were, it would be with some design!'
'Ay: perhaps a proposition that you should leave him quietly possessed of the disputed property.'
'And, having obtained that, he would desert his second wife as he had done his first.'
'There is some difference between a young woman and an old one. Beside, if your account be true, Mrs. Wakefield, though she was your mother, was very inferior to Miss Wilmot.'
'You forget that he seduced this lady, and deserted her.'
'I have heard or read of a man who, after being divorced even from a wife, became more passionately in love with her than ever.'
'Wakefield is incapable of love.'
'You frame to yourself a most black and deformed being of this
Wakefield.'
'And you suppose a degree of sympathy, between yourself and him, which cannot exist.'