'Tell me that I acted for the best.

Tell me that we parted because I feared to bring misfortune on your head; that it was a trial to me no less than to yourself, and that if I did wrong it was in ignorance of the world and unknowingly.' 'Why should I tell you what we know so well ?' returned Kate soothingly.
'Nicholas--dear Nicholas--how can you give way thus ?' 'It is such bitter reproach to me to know what you have undergone,' returned her brother; 'to see you so much altered, and yet so kind and patient--God!' cried Nicholas, clenching his fist and suddenly changing his tone and manner, 'it sets my whole blood on fire again.

You must leave here with me directly; you should not have slept here last night, but that I knew all this too late.

To whom can I speak, before we drive away ?' This question was most opportunely put, for at that instant Mr Wititterly walked in, and to him Kate introduced her brother, who at once announced his purpose, and the impossibility of deferring it.
'The quarter's notice,' said Mr Wititterly, with the gravity of a man on the right side, 'is not yet half expired.

Therefore--' 'Therefore,' interposed Nicholas, 'the quarter's salary must be lost, sir.