16/22 You know the truth, Lady Mary." "Do not call me Lady Mary. Do not quarrel with me." "If your father has quarrelled with me, it would not be fit that you and I should be friends. Your duty to him would forbid it. I should not have come to you now did I not feel that I am bound to justify myself. The thing of which I am accused is so repugnant to me, that I am obliged to do something and to say something, even though the subject itself be one on which I would so willingly be silent." "What can I do, Mrs.Finn ?" "It was Mr.Tregear who first told me that your father was angry with me. |