I put it to your own common-sense (we will say a week for the notice to quit)--why not treat me like a friend?
You don't know what a sacrifice, what a cruel sacrifice, I have made--entirely for your sake.
"You ?" I exclaimed.

"What sacrifice ?" "What sacrifice ?" repeated the landlady.

"I have degraded myself as a gentlewoman.

I have forfeited my own self-respect." She paused for a moment, and suddenly seized my hand in a perfect frenzy of friendship.
"Oh, my poor dear!" cried this intolerable person.

"I have discovered everything.