[A Life’s Morning by George Gissing]@TWC D-Link bookA Life’s Morning CHAPTER XIX 27/30
No word for Wilfrid. 'This proves it,' Wilfrid said, with bitter coldness.
'All she says is false.
She does what she is ashamed of, and lies to conceal it for a few days or weeks.' 'Do not let us even yet be sure,' said Mrs.Baxendale, who was recovering her calmer judgment. 'I _am_ sure! Why should she keep the place secret? She fears that I should follow her? Could she not anywhere keep me off by her mere bidding? Have I been brutally importunate? What secret can exist that she might not disclose to me--that she was not bound to disclose? I thought her incapable of a breath of falsehood, and she must have deceived me from the first, from the very first!' 'Wilfrid, that is impossible.
I cannot abandon my faith in Emily.
New you speak in this way, it convinces me that we are wrong, utterly and foolishly mistaken.
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