"What have I done to be ashamed of, pray ?" Some ladies are ready to plume themselves upon not having been guilty of certain great crimes.

Some thieves, I dare say, console themselves that they have never committed murder.
"If I had married a man I did not love," answered Mary, "I should be more ashamed of myself than I can tell." "That is the way of looking at such things in the class you belong to, I dare say," rejoined Hesper; "but with us it is quite different.

There is no necessity laid upon _you.

Our_ position obliges us." "But what if God should not see it as you do ?" "If that is all you have got to bring against me!--" said Hesper, with a forced laugh.
"But that is not all," replied Mary.

"When you married, you promised many things, not one of which you have ever done." "Really, Mary, this is intolerable!" cried Hesper.
"I am only doing what you asked me, ma'am," said Mary.