It is true I permitted them.

But since then circumstances have come to my ears which render it imperative that you should drop all communication with the members of my family, more especially, to speak plainly, with my daughter." "At least, sir," said George, "let me know what charge you bring against me." "I make no charges of any sort," replied the Vicar.

"All I say is, that I wish the intercourse between you and my daughter to cease; and I consider, sir, that when I say that, it ought to be sufficient.

I conceive that I have the right to say so much without question." "I think you are unjust, sir; I do, indeed," said George.
"I may have been unjust, and I may have been weak, in allowing an intimacy (which I do not deny, mind you) to spring up between my daughter and yourself.

But I am not unjust now, when I require that it should cease.