"That is nonsense."
"It shall not be nonsense. I will not live to hear myself accused by my husband as to another man. Wicked young woman! Oh, what women are and what they can do! She has never been engaged to Captain De Baron."
"What is that to you or me?"
"Nothing, if you had not told me that I stood in her way."
"It is not her engagement, or her hopes, whether ill or well founded, or his treachery to a lady, that concerns you and me, Mary; but that she should send for me and tell me to my face that you are the cause of her unhappiness. Why should she pitch upon you?"
"How can I say? Because she is very wicked."
"And why should Susanna feel herself obliged to caution me as to this Captain De Baron? She had no motive. She is not wicked."
"I don't know that."
"And why should my brother tell me that all the world is speaking of your conduct with this very man?"
"Because he is your bitterest enemy. George, do you believe it?"