"Are your instructions from Mrs.Newsome that you shall, even at the worst, absolutely and irretrievably break with me ?" "My instructions from Mrs.Newsome are, if you please, my affair.

You know perfectly what your own were, and you can judge for yourself of what it can do for you to have made what you have of them.

You can perfectly see, at any rate, I'll go so far as to say, that if I wish not to expose myself I must wish still less to expose HER." She had already said more than she had quite expected; but, though she had also pulled up, the colour in her face showed him he should from one moment to the other have it all.

He now indeed felt the high importance of his having it.

"What is your conduct," she broke out as if to explain--"what is your conduct but an outrage to women like US?
I mean your acting as if there can be a doubt--as between us and such another--of his duty ?" He thought a moment.