If he wants you, let him come and ask you like an honest man." Miss Bennett shook her head.

"He's a baronet, you know." "No matter.

An honest man and an honest woman are perfectly equal, even though one is a baronet and the other a daily governess.

And, if love is worth any thing, it will last three months; if worth nothing, it had better go." But even while she was speaking--plain truths which she believed with her whole heart--Christian felt, in this case, the bitter satire of her words.
Susan Bennett only smiled at them in a vague, uncomprehending way.
"Would you have trusted your lover--that means Dr.Grey, I suppose-- for three months ?" Mrs.Grey did not reply.

But her heart leaped to think how well she knew the answer.