For some reason of your own, however, you have not yet chosen to recognize me openly.

In this painful position something is due to my own self-respect.

I cannot, and will not, permit Mercy Merrick to claim the merit of restoring me to my proper place in this house.

After what I have suffered it is quite impossible for me to endure that.

I should have requested an interview (if you had not sent for me) for the express purpose of claiming this person's immediate expulsion from the house.