"Yes, yes, and the sonority of the instrument is double that of the old harpsichord. It would be heard all over Covent Garden."
She could see that the remark pleased him. "I'll sing 'Zerline' if you'll play it."
"You couldn't sing 'Zerline,' it isn't in your voice."
"You don't know what my voice is like."
"Evelyn, I wonder how you can expect me to forgive you; I wonder how I can speak to you. Have you forgotten how you went away leaving me to bear the shame, the disgrace?"
"I have come to beg forgiveness, not to excuse myself. But I wrote to you from Paris that I was going to live with Lady Duckle, and that you were to say that I had gone abroad to study singing."
"I'm astonished, Evelyn, that you can speak so lightly."
"I do not think lightly of my conduct, if you knew the miserable days it has cost me. Reproach me as you will about my neglect toward you, but as far as the world is concerned there has been no disgrace."
"You would have gone all the same; you only thought of yourself. Brought up as you have been, a Catholic—"
"My sins, father, lie between God and myself. What I come for is to beg forgiveness for the wrong I did you."