It looks so unpleasant for her,--as though she had misbehaved herself." "I have never thought so for a moment." "Of course you have not.

How could you have thought so, Mr.Wharton ?" "I say that I never did." "What must he think when he knows,--as of course he does know,--that she has been forbidden to meet him?
It must make him fancy that he is made very much of.

All that is so very bad for a girl! Indeed it is, Mr.Wharton." Of course there was absolute dishonesty in all this on the part of Mrs.Roby.She was true enough to Emily's lover,--too true to him; but she was false to Emily's father.

If Emily would have yielded to her she would have arranged meetings at her own house between the lovers altogether in opposition to the father.
Nevertheless there was a show of reason about what she said which Mr.Wharton was unable to overcome.

And at the same time there was a reality about his girl's sorrow which overcame him.