For Emma not to send forth a vapour of words was impossible, but they did not satisfy even herself. Those short terse sentences of Theodora’s told upon her, and at last she did not deny that she should not have thought it right if Theresa had not prompted it.
‘Is she more likely to be right, or is the Catechism?’
‘The Catechism?’
‘To be TRUE and just in all my dealings.’
‘She did not think it wrong.’
‘No, of course not, but if it is wrong, and she does not think it so, does that make her a safe guide?’
‘You want to set me against her!’
‘I want you to cease to give her a power over you, which is unsafe for any human being.’
‘You have been talking to mamma.’
‘I have been seeing how unhappy she is about you; but since I have talked to yourself I have seen far more danger.’