"I was to blame in that, very much to blame. I have nearly broken my heart over the sin and its consequences."
"Consequences! Yes, for they fell upon the innocent—that is what you ought to be sorry for—my grandfather and grandmother, my Uncle Neil, and even myself."
"But as for yourself, Maria, you also were to blame. If you would have been content with seeing Harry here——"
"Oh, indeed! You did not permit me to see Harry here, or even to bid him good-bye that night. If you had——"
"It would have made no difference. Harry as well as you seemed willing to run all risks to meet—elsewhere."
"I never thought of meeting Harry elsewhere. I have told you this fact before."
"If you had not done so, if Harry had not known you would do so again, he would not have asked you."
"This is the last time I will condescend to tell you, Agnes, that I never once met Harry by appointment; much less, at nine o'clock at night. Please remember this!"
"It is, then, very strange, that Harry should have asked you that night."
"Not only very strange, but very impertinent. Why should he suppose Maria Semple would obey such a command? For it was a command. And it was a further impertinence to send me this command on a bit of common paper, wrapped around a stone and thrown at me through a window. It was a vulgar thing to do, also, and I never gave Harry Bradley the smallest right to order me to meet him anywhere."