"About Mr. Hamel."
"I don't want to hear any more about Mr. Hamel. I have heard quite enough of Mr. Hamel."
"Of course I am engaged to him, Aunt Emmeline."
"So I hear you say. I do not think it very dutiful of you to come and talk to me about him, knowing as you do what I think about him."
"What I want to ask is this. Ought I to stay here or ought I to go away?"
"I never heard such a girl! Where are you to go to? What makes you ask the question?"
"Because you said that I ought to go if I did not give him up."
"You ought to give him up."
"I cannot do that, aunt."
"Then you had better hold your tongue and say nothing further about it. I don't believe he earns enough to give you bread to eat and decent clothes to wear. What would you do if children were to come year after year? If you really love him I wonder how you can think of being such a millstone round a man's neck!"