It has grieved her very much indeed that you should have so misunderstood her motives, and treated her so rudely.

Mamma takes things like that most deeply to heart.' 'She told you why I treated her rudely ?' 'Yes, she told me, but she did not tell papa anything about it; it would only vex papa and do no good.

Mamma told me to tell you that she had made up her mind to forgive you, and to say no more about it, although she was deeply grieved that you should have so misunderstood her.' 'Yes,' said the curate vaguely, for he did not know what else to say.
'Of course, as to the necklace, it may be a matter of opinion as to whether mamma judged rightly or not; but no one who knows her could doubt that her one desire was to do what was right.

It is quite true what she says: that the stone was most unsuitable to the station of those people; every one says that the man was a very common and vulgar-looking person; and of course to regard such a thing with superstitious veneration is a very great sin, from which she saved them as long as she kept it.

Mamma says of course she knew she ran the risk of being misunderstood in acting as she did, but she thought it her duty to run that risk if by that means she could save anything that God had entrusted to her keeping from being misused.