"I have no wish ever to associate again with one by whose side I am deemed so unworthy, even by my parents." "Those who love you best, Caroline, are ever the first to behold and deplore your faults.

Have you acted honourably?
have you done worthily in exciting love merely to give pain, to amuse and gratify your own love of power ?" "I have done no more than other girls do with impunity, without even notice; and surely that which is so generally practised cannot demand such severe censure as you bestow on it." "And therefore you would make custom an excuse for sin, Caroline.

Would you have spoken thus a few months since?
would you have questioned the justice of your mother's sentences?
and yet you say you are not changed.
Is it any excuse for a wrong action, because others do it?
Had you been differently instructed it might be, but not when from your earliest years I have endeavoured to reason with, and to convince you of the sin of coquetry, to which from a child you have been inclined.

You have acted more sinfully than many whose coquetry has been more general.

You devoted yourself to one alone, encouraged, flattered, because you saw he was already attracted, instead of adhering to that distant behaviour which would have at once told him you could feel no more for him than as a friend.