sha'n'ts

Updated: May 28, 2025

Perhaps some instinct told him not to please her in this way too much, for he rose and walked away a moment. "There! don't let's think of it, or I shall turn tyrant after all, and plunge into 'shalls' and 'sha'n'ts'! You know you carry two lives, and all the plans that either of us care about, in your hand. You say that Tressady brought you home?" He turned and looked at her. "Yes.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Sir George Tressady — Volume II