I always said and thought, that I would never believe a word against you, unless I heard it from your own lips.

All the hints and affirmations of others I treated as malignant, baseless slanders; your own self-accusations I believed to be overstrained; and all that seemed unaccountable in your position I trusted that you could account for if you chose.' Mrs.Graham had discontinued her walk.

She leant against one end of the chimney-piece, opposite that near which I was standing, with her chin resting on her closed hand, her eyes--no longer burning with anger, but gleaming with restless excitement--sometimes glancing at me while I spoke, then coursing the opposite wall, or fixed upon the carpet.
'You should have come to me after all,' said she, 'and heard what I had to say in my own justification.

It was ungenerous and wrong to withdraw yourself so secretly and suddenly, immediately after such ardent protestations of attachment, without ever assigning a reason for the change.

You should have told me all-no matter how bitterly.