I can see that.

Priscilla Stanbury is right when she says that no woman should trust herself to any man.
Disgraced! That I should live to be told by my husband that I had disgraced him,--by a lover!" There was some sort of agreement made between the two sisters as to the manner in which Priscilla should be interrogated respecting the sentence of banishment which had been passed.

They both agreed that it would be useless to make inquiry of Mrs.Stanbury.If anything had really been said to justify the statement made in Mr.Trevelyan's letter, it must have come from Priscilla, and have reached Trevelyan through Priscilla's brother.

They, both of them, had sufficiently learned the ways of the house to be sure that Mrs.Stanbury had not been the person active in the matter.

They went down, therefore, together, and found Priscilla seated at her desk in the parlour.
Mrs.Stanbury was also in the room, and it had been presumed between the sisters that the interrogations should be made in that lady's absence; but Mrs.Trevelyan was too hot in the matter for restraint, and she at once opened out her budget of grievance.
"I have a letter from my husband," she said,--and then paused.