"Why?"
"I would rather — and I think it is right."
"To take care of that old woman?"
"No — I can't do much for her — but I can see that she is taken care of."
"But how would she have done if you had never come here?"
"I don't know. I don't know what that has to do with it, seeing that I am here."
"You wouldn't stay for her now, if she wasn't somebody's old nurse."
Elizabeth did not answer.
"But how long do you mean to stay here, Lizzie? — any how?"
"Till I must go — till it is less pleasant here than somewhere else."