‘You have the same feeling, you mean.’
‘I am a woman. I follow my brother, whatever he decides. It is not to say he is the enemy of persons offending him; only that they have put the division.’
‘They repent?’
‘If they do, they do well for themselves.’
‘You would see them in sackcloth and ashes?’
‘I would pray to be spared seeing them.’
‘You can entirely forget—well, other moments, other feelings?’
‘They may heighten the injury.’
‘Carinthia, I should wish to speak plainly, if I could, and tell you....’
‘You speak quite plainly, my lord.’