"Yes. But I have never been false to any one. You are false to me."
"Have I not offered to face all the world with you?"
"You would not offer it now?"
"No," he said, after a pause,—"not now. Were I to do so, I should be false. You bade me take my love elsewhere, and I did so."
"With the greatest ease."
"We agreed it should be so; and you have done the same."
"That is false. Look me in the face and tell me whether you do not know it to be false!"
"And yet I am told that I am injuring you with Silverbridge."
"Oh,—so unmanly again! Of course I have to marry. Who does not know it? Do you want to see me begging my bread about the streets? You have bread; or if not, you might earn it. If you marry for money—"
"The accusation is altogether unjustifiable."