But I will tell you the truth now.

If I had known that all this was to be said to me about money, and that our poverty was to be talked over between you and Captain Aylmer, I would not have come to Perivale.

I would rather that you should be angry with me and think that I had forgotten you." "You would not say that, Clara, if you remembered that this will probably be your last visit to me." "No, no; it will not be the last.

But do not talk about these things.
And it will be so much better that I should be here when he is not here." "I had hoped that when I died you might both be with me together,--as husband and wife." "Such hopes never come to anything." "I still think that he would wish it." "That is nonsense, aunt.

It is indeed, for neither of us wish it." A lie on such a subject from a woman under such circumstances is hardly to be considered a lie at all.