does Presty want to bring it?
 Mrs. Presty took the letter. "You mean, tear it up," she said, "and quite right, too." 

"No; I mean what I say." 

"My dear child, if you have any regard for yourself, if you have any regard for me, don't ask me to give Bennydeck this mad letter! You won't hear reason? You still insist on it?"  