“Besides, you are the one that’s in the wrong—”
“Speak, or I’ll go away.”
“There’s no one but you that can get me out of the scrape—and it was you that got me into it.”
“Come, come.”
“It’s about—”
“About—”
“About Justine!”
“Don’t speak of her, she’s discharged. I won’t see her again, her style of conduct exposes your reputation—”
“What can people say—what have they said?”
The scene changes, the result of which is a secondary explanation which makes Caroline blush, as she sees the bearing of the suppositions of her best friends.