There's no other way of avoiding such a reproach as this.

So long as I don't laugh and sing before people, and assure them that things couldn't be more hopeful, I shall be asking for their sympathy, and against you.

I can't understand your unreasonableness.' 'I'm afraid there is very little in me that you can understand.

So long as my prospects seemed bright, you could sympathise readily enough; as soon as ever they darkened, something came between us.

Amy, you haven't done your duty.