“Because I was pledged to my mother not to do so. I was bound to be silent.”
“By George!” said Darrell, striking the table with his fist, making all the glasses and cups dance; “and for all that nonsense I have been made a laughing stock, a ridiculous, trusting fool—an ass!”
“No one will think that but yourself,” Mrs. Darrell said; “and you will change your mind, I hope.”
“And how do you know that?”
“I was supposing that people reason in the way that in all my life I have believed to be correct.”
“Yes, what you believe to be correct no one else has any right to think differently.”
“Whether they have or not, I shall not interfere.”
“No, you only wanted to interfere with me.”
“Certainly. As my life is united to yours, I am obliged to try and prevent such of your actions as will make me unhappy.”
“An excellent doctrine for wives—for mothers to teach their children—and we see the result now.”