He specially abstained from offending their religious susceptibilities.
Helene was faced by a new problem--how to preserve her intimacy with both without offending either.
He tried to grab her once, but the offending hand was swatted away.
On the 9th of August 1832 Mahmud made, through Stratford Canning, a formal proposal for an alliance with Great Britain, which Palmerston refused to consider for fear of offending France.