human
But after all it is hardly worth the telling, because, you see, we are very comfortable now. Poor Ascott, we suppose, must be in Australia. I earn enough to keep Johanna and myself, and Miss Balquidder is a good friend to us. We have repaid her, and owe nobody any thing. Still, we have suffered a great deal. Two years ago; oh! it was a dreadful time.
gpt
You suffered, and I never knew it.
human
I never meant you to know.
gpt
Why not? He walked the room in great excitement.
human
I ought to have been told; it was cruel not to tell me. Suppose you had sunk under it; suppose you had died, or been driven to do what many a woman does for the sake of mere bread and a home--what your poor sister did--married. But I beg your pardon.
gpt
No, she cried;
human
I beg your pardon once more. I had no right to allude to any thing of the kind.