I told him that the letter was still there, and that if he chose to be a spy upon my actions he could open it and read it." "My dear, how could you bring yourself to use the word spy to your husband ?" "How could he bring himself to accuse me as he did?
If he cares for me let him come and beg my pardon for the insult he has offered me." "Oh, Mrs.Trevelyan,--" "Yes; that seems very wrong to you, who have not had to bear it.

It is very easy for a stranger to take a husband's part, and help to put down a poor woman who has been ill-used.

I have done nothing wrong, nothing to be ashamed of; and I will not say that I have.

I never have spoken a word to Colonel Osborne that all the world might not hear." "Nobody has accused you, my dear." "Yes; he has accused me, and you have accused me, and you will make all the world accuse me.

He may put me out of his house if he likes, but he shall not make me say I have been wrong, when I know I have been right.