He had left the girl whose youth and innocence he had seduced, in a situation of the utmost distress, with no creditable home, no help, no friends, ignorant of his address! He had left her, promising to return; he neither returned, nor wrote, nor relieved her." "This is beyond every thing!" exclaimed Elinor.
"His character is now before you; expensive, dissipated, and worse than both.

Knowing all this, as I have now known it many weeks, guess what I must have felt on seeing your sister as fond of him as ever, and on being assured that she was to marry him: guess what I must have felt for all your sakes.

When I came to you last week and found you alone, I came determined to know the truth; though irresolute what to do when it WAS known.

My behaviour must have seemed strange to you then; but now you will comprehend it.

To suffer you all to be so deceived; to see your sister--but what could I do?
I had no hope of interfering with success; and sometimes I thought your sister's influence might yet reclaim him.