David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Chapter 25 Page 10

I am quite sure it is. I feel as if it were someone else speaking to you, and not I, when I caution you that you have made a dangerous friend.’

Again I looked at her, again I listened to her after she was silent, and again his image, though it was still fixed in my heart, darkened.

‘I am not so unreasonable as to expect,’ said Agnes, resuming her usual tone, after a little while, ‘that you will, or that you can, at once, change any sentiment that has become a conviction to you; least of all a sentiment that is rooted in your trusting disposition.

You ought not hastily to do that. I only ask you, Trotwood, if you ever think of me — I mean,’ with a quiet smile, for I was going to interrupt her, and she knew why, ‘as often as you think of me —