What am I, then ?' I added more details, and reiterated the reason for my conduct as well as I could; but Heaven knows how very difficult I found it to feel a jot more justification for it in my own mind than she did in hers.
The revulsion of feeling, as soon as she really comprehended all, was most distressing.

After her grief had in some measure spent itself she turned against both him and me.
'Why should have I been deceived like this ?' she demanded, with a bitter haughtiness of which I had not deemed such a tractable creature capable.
'Do you suppose that anything could justify such an imposition?
What, O what a snare you have spread for me!' I murmured, 'Your life seemed to require it,' but she did not hear me.
She sank down in a chair, covered her face, and then my father came in.
'O, here you are!' he said.

'I could not find you.

And Caroline!' 'And were you, papa, a party to this strange deed of kindness ?' 'To what ?' said he.
Then out it all came, and for the first time he was made acquainted with the fact that the scheme for soothing her illness, which I had sounded him upon, had been really carried out.

In a moment he sided with Caroline.