Would it not be an unexemplified unthankfulness to requite rebellion to him, for so much unparalleled affection?

I shook my head at him to let him know not to wild out on her.

‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.

Finding your wonderful soulmate is very similar to the process of sowing a seed and nurturing it into a beautiful blossoming plant.