human
Well; what has he said? asked Lady Carbury. Hetta was in tears,--or very nigh to tears,--struggling to repress them, and struggling almost successfully.
gpt
You have found that what we told you about that woman was all true.
human
Enough of it was true,
gpt
What do you mean by that, Hetta? Had you not better speak to me openly?
human
I say, mamma, that enough was true. I do not know how to speak more openly. I need not go into all the miserable story of the woman. He is like other men, I suppose. He has entangled himself with some abominable creature and then when he is tired of her thinks that he has nothing to do but to say so,--and to begin with somebody else.
gpt
Roger Carbury is very different.
human
Oh, mamma, you will make me ill if you go on like that. It seems to me that you do not understand in the least.
gpt
I say he is not like that.
human
Not in the least. Of course I know that he is not in the least like that.
gpt
I say that he can be trusted.
human
Of course he can be trusted. Who doubts it?
gpt
And that if you would give yourself to him, there would be no cause for any alarm.
human
Mamma, said Hetta jumping up,
gpt
You have told Mr. Montague that he is not to come here again?
human
I don't know what I told him, but he knows very well what I mean.
gpt
That it is all over? Hetta made no reply.
human
Hetta, I have a right to ask that, and I have a right to expect a reply. I do not say that you have hitherto behaved badly about Mr. Montague.
gpt
I have not behaved badly. I have told you everything. I have done nothing that I am ashamed of.
human
But we have now found out that he has behaved very badly. He has come here to you,--with unexampled treachery to your cousin Roger--
gpt
I deny that,
human
And at the very time was almost living with this woman who says that she is divorced from her husband in America! Have you told him that you will see him no more?
gpt
He understood that.
human
If you have not told him so plainly, I must tell him.
gpt
Mamma, you need not trouble yourself. I have told him very plainly.