"Listen to me.

I have come to try to make things right again between us--to ask you to forgive me for speaking as I--as I did about your writing that day.

I am sorry--I am, indeed." "I don't quite understand.

You ask me to _forgive_ you--but what question is there of forgiveness?
You had a perfect right to your opinion, and I was glad to have it at last from you, frankly." "But it offended you, Elfrida.

It is what is accountable for the--the rupture between us." "Perhaps.