of the trust which it has been hitherto my greatest honour and greatest happiness to possess?”
“I have found nothing in your conduct to blame,” she answered. “You have always treated me with the same delicacy and the same forbearance. You have deserved my trust, and, what is of far more importance in my estimation, you have deserved my father’s trust, out of which mine grew. You have given me no excuse, even if I had wanted to find one, for asking to be released from my pledge. What I have said
yourself, or you will make me alter my opinion of you. Don’t let me think that the person who put you in the Asylum might have had some excuse----”
The next words died away on my lips. The instant I risked that chance reference to the person who had put her in the Asylum she sprang up on her knees.