"But you must remember my situation."
"I don't remember what you said," she answered coldly.
"Ah, you're offended, and now you'll never help me."
She was silent an instant, and then with a change of tone: "It's not
that I won't; I simply can't!" Her manner was almost passionate.
"If you could, just a little, I'd never again speak of your
husband save as an angel."
"The inducement's great," said Isabel gravely-inscrutably, as he
afterwards, to himself, called it; and she gave him, straight in the
eyes, a look which was also inscrutable. It made him remember
somehow that he had known her as a child; and yet it was keener than
he liked, and he took himself off.
CHAPTER 38
He went to see Madame Merle on the morrow, and to his surprise she
let him off rather easily. But she made him promise that he would stop
there till something should have been decided. Mr. Osmond had had
higher expectations; it was very true that as he had no intention of
giving his daughter a portion such expectations were open to criticism
or even, if one would, to ridicule. But she would advise Mr. Rosier
not to take that tone; if he would possess his soul in patience he
might arrive at his felicity.
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