"I've been betrayed, as my mother was.

It doesn't matter what----" "I knew it!" cried Warham, with no notion of what the girl meant by the word "betrayed." "Why didn't you confess the truth while he was here and his father was ready to marry him to you?
I knew you'd been loose with him, as your Aunt Fanny said." "But I wasn't," said Susan.

"I wouldn't do such a thing." "There you go, lying again!" "It doesn't matter," said she.

"All I want is for you to go away." "You do ?" sneered he.

"And then what?
I've got to think of Ruthie." He snatched the bundle from her hand.