"That I ought to be allowed to see him before I give him up."
"You shall never be allowed to see him."
"Listen to me, mamma, for a moment. When he asked me to—love him, we were equals."
"I deny it. You were never equals."
"We lived as such,—except in this, that they had money for our wants, and we had none to repay them."
"Money can have nothing to do with it."
"Only that we took it. And then he was everything to us. It seemed as though it would be impossible to refuse anything that he asked. It was impossible to me. As to being noble, I am sure that he was noble. You always used to say that nobody else ever was so good as those two. Did you not say so, mamma?"
"If I praise my horse or my dog, do I say that they are of the same nature as myself?"
"But he is a man; quite as much a man as,—as any man could be."
"You mean that you will not do as I bid you."