When she owned this, I most willingly lent her the money to pay her bills--a mere trifle, only thirty pounds.

What do you think she did?
She crushed up the bank-notes in her hand, and left the room in the strangest headlong manner--as if I had insulted her instead of helping her! All the next day, she avoided me.

The day after, I myself went to her room, and asked what was the matter.

She gave me a most extraordinary answer.

She said, 'I don't know which of us two I most detest--myself or you.