Promise me that! I could not bear that you should meet her as she comes.

There would be shouts; I can hear them.

No, I will not have it! I can see her proud cursed face a-flush.
No! You think too much of what she has suffered.

If I could have suffered too! But suffering, shame, humiliation, these fall to women, always have fallen.

We have learnt to bear them so that we feel them less than you.