You make me doubt whether I hate or love you most.

Knowing what my feelings are about George, I cannot understand how you can bring yourself to speak of him to me with such contempt!" Kate Vavasor, as she spoke these words, left the room with a quick step, and hurried up to her own chamber.

There Alice found her in tears, and was driven by her friend's real grief into the expression of an apology, which she knew was not properly due from her.

Kate was acquainted with all the circumstances of that old affair between her brother and Alice.

She had given in her adhesion to the propriety of what Alice had done.
She had allowed that her brother George's behaviour had been such as to make any engagement between them impossible.