Do girls in love behave like this to their lovers ?" "You should not have frightened me," I cried, bursting into tears.

"You should not have brought me here.

How can you say I accepted you of my own free will when it is killing me?
You know that I accepted you because your father holds a disgraceful secret and has frightened the life out of my grandfather and grandmother.

I had to do it for them because they were old and it would kill them if the disgrace were published." It had never entered into my mind that he could be in ignorance of how his father had constrained us, but now it flashed on my amazed mind that he had not known at all.
"Good God!" he said.

"Good God!" and stood staring at me with a grey face.
I was frightened then of the mischief I had done, and sorry for him too.
"I thought you knew," I stammered..