You see I was right when I said that you had not been frank towards me." "I have not been frank with you, you say?
Yes, that is true," she rejoined, while her eye met his unflinchingly.

"And it is to my honour.
I have submitted to be an object of suspicion in my own house.

I have shut my eyes and persisted in believing that you cared for me, in spite of the heavier burden which you were every day imposing upon me--in spite of all that I have had to endure--and it has been much, very much, Salve,--and I have done all this because I believed it was my duty, and because I thought you could not bear to hear the truth, and because I hoped that I might conquer in the end, and make you really love me as I have all along, and but too well, loved you, Salve.

It is true that I have not been frank with you.

And, I repeat, it is to my honour." This interpretation of their relations together was not one which he chose to accept, and he rejoined in the same hard tone as before-- "However cleverly you may have tried to conceal it, Elizabeth, it has always been but too evident to me what you have endured in trying to accommodate yourself to the humble circumstances of a man like me.