But as it turned out, she gave up her own wishes and married your cousin." "I don't know about her own wishes, Miss Vavasor." "It is what she did.

She would have married Mr Fitzgerald, had she not been hindered by the advice of those around her.

It cannot be supposed that she has forgotten him in so short a time.

There can be no guilt in her remembrance." "There is guilt in loving any other than her husband." "Then, Miss Palliser, it was her marriage that was guilty, and not her love.

But all that is done and past.