in
stronger
and
stronger
current.
She had
tried to
elude
agitation
by fixing
her mind
on the
trees,
sky, any
trivial
object
before her
eyes,
whilst his
reproaches
fell, but
ingenuity
could not
save her
now. “I
did not
take you
up –
surely I
did not!”
she
answered
as
heroically
as she
could.
“But don’t
be in this
mood with
me. I can
endure
being told
I am in
the wrong,
if you
will only
tell it me
gently! O
sir, will
you not
