You have often said that before; and yet you have always had to admit that our divergent opinions need not erect barriers between those feelings which have existed between us in our companionship from our youth upwards.
Estella:
True, I have said so. Yet it always arouses a sense of bitterness in me, when, as the years roll on, I see how your affections are estranged from those things in life that seem to me worth while.
Sophia:
Still, we may be of much mutual help to one another if we recognize and realize the various points of view which we reach through our different inclinations.
Estella:
Yes! My reason tells me that you are right. And yet there is something in me that rebels against your view of life.
Sophia:
Why not candidly admit that what you require of me is the renunciation of my inmost soul-life?
Estella: