"Aw, he's good, miss—he's real good for all."
"Do you say that, Bessie? After he has betrayed you?" said Fenella,
"Betrayed? I wouldn't say that, miss."
"But he .... he took you to his rooms?"
"What else could he do, miss? All the inns were shut and it was raining, and I had nothing in my pocket."
"But .... having taken advantage of your homelessness and poverty, he afterwards cast you off?"
A mysterious wave of injured vanity struggled with Bessie's shame and she said,
"'Deed he didn't, then. He wanted to marry me."
"Marry you .... did you say marry...."
"Yes, he did, and that was why he sent me to school."