"If you have been told that abominable rubbish, Anne, it is not necessary to repeat it.

It's not so pleasant a theme that you need make a joke of it." "Is it rubbish ?" asked Anne, lifting her eyes.
"I think you ought to know that if any one does.

But had anything happened, Anne, recollect it would have been your fault.

You have been very cool to me of late.

You forbid me the house for weeks and weeks; you went away for an indefinite period without letting me know, or giving me the chance of seeing you; and when the correspondence was at length renewed, your letters were cold and formal--quite different from what they used to be.