"I will give him a message, if you like."
"Then tell him what I have just said. I am going home to write to him. Good morning."
She was getting into the fly again, when Mrs. Wardour, reflecting that it must needs be something of consequence that brought her there so early in a fly, and made her show such a determined front to so great a personage as herself, spoke again.
"I will tell him you are here; but you must not blame me if he does not choose to see you. We don't feel you have behaved well about that girl."
"Letty is my friend. I have behaved to her as if she were my sister."
"You had no business to behave to her as if she were your sister. You had no right to tempt her down to your level."
"Is it degradation to earn one's own living?"
"You had nothing to do with her. She would have done very well if you had but let her alone."
"Excuse me, ma'am, but I have some right in Letty. I am sorry to have to assert it, but she would have been dead long ago if I had behaved to her as you would have me."
"That was all her own fault."