is really no light affair. Rochester and Mellors both believe in him.
There is no limit to what he might not ask."

"He has told me a dozen times," she said, "that he never means to sit in
Parliament again."

"There is no reason why he should not change his mind," Borrowdean
answered. "Between us, I think that we could induce him."

"Perhaps," she answered. "Only I do not mean to try."

"I wish I could make you understand," he said impatiently, "that I am in
deadly earnest."

"You threaten?"

"Don't call it that."

"Very well, then," she declared, "I will tell him the truth myself."

"That," he answered, "is all that I should dare to ask. He would come to
us to-morrow."

"You used not to underrate me," she murmured, with a glance towards the
mirror.

"There is no other man like Mannering," he said. "He abhors any form of
deceit. He would forgive a murderer, but never a liar."

"My dear Leslie," she said, "as a friend--and a relative--"