"I attend to everything.

I have attended to everything." She gazed at him with a strange, pathetic dignity.

"I have no apologies nor excuses to make to you," she said.
"I have only this to say, and you can reflect upon it at your leisure.

Sometimes, quite often, it may happen that too heavy a burden, a burden which has been gathering weight since the first of creation, is heaped upon too slender shoulders.

This burden may bend innocence into guilt and modesty into shamelessness, but there is no more reason for condemnation than in a case of typhoid fever.