It is impossible that I should." "If you mean that you regret what you have done because you have been false to the man, I can sympathise with you.

No one has ever a right to be false, and if you are repenting a falsehood, I will willingly help you to eat your ashes and to wear your sackcloth.

But if you are repenting a truth--" "I am." "Then you must eat your ashes by yourself, for me; and I do not think that you will ever be able to digest them." "I do not want anybody to help me," said Nora proudly.
"Nobody can help you, if I understand the matter rightly.

You have got to get the better of your own covetousness and evil desires, and you are in the fair way to get the better of them if you have already refused to be this man's wife because you could not bring yourself to commit the sin of marrying him when you did not love him.

I suppose that is about the truth of it; and indeed, indeed, I do sympathise with you.