My eyes are opened." "Cruel!" said Fanny, "quite cruel.

At such a moment to give way to gaiety, to speak with lightness, and to you! Absolute cruelty." "Cruelty, do you call it?
We differ there.

No, hers is not a cruel nature.

I do not consider her as meaning to wound my feelings.

The evil lies yet deeper: in her total ignorance, unsuspiciousness of there being such feelings; in a perversion of mind which made it natural to her to treat the subject as she did.