"Oh, Cecilia, I cannot tell you how grieved I am that I ever was a party to this deception!"
"Why should you be grieved, Mora?"
"Because if Mr. Fildew had been told from the first who you were, this terrible business would never have happened."
"I am not so sure of that. Men are sometimes very audacious. But it is no such terrible business after all."
"To me it certainly seems so, and I shall never forgive myself for helping to bring it about."
"And I can never be sufficiently grateful to you for the share you have had in it."
"This is infatuation, Cecilia. But don't, pray don't, tell me that you have any thought of encouraging Mr. Fildew's attentions."
"Encouraging his attentions! What phrases are these, Mora? Did I not tell you just now that--that Mr. Fildew has told me that he loves me, and did I not give you to understand that I care for him in return?"
"How wretched you make me feel! But you have not told him that you return his love?"
"Not one syllable has he heard from my lips."