'
Alice bridled slightly and urged no more. She left before Kate
returned.
In the course of the morning Emma strung herself to the effort of
letting her sister know the true state of affairs. It was only what
Kate had for a long time suspected, and she freely said as much,
expressing her sentiments with fluent indignation.
'Of course I know you won't hear of it,' she said, 'but if I was in
your place I'd make him smart. I'd have him up and make him pay, see
if I wouldn't. Trust him, he knows you're too soft-hearted, and he
takes advantage of you. It's girls like you as encourages men to
think they can do as they like. You've no right, you haven't, to let
him off. I'd have him in the newspapers and show him up, see if I
wouldn't. And he shan't have it quite so easy as he thinks neither;
I'll go about and tell everybody as I know. Only let him come
a-lecturin' hereabouts, that's all!'
'Kate,' broke in the other, 'if you do anything of the kind, I don't
know how I shall speak to you again. Its not you he's harmed; you've
no right to spread talk about me It's my affair, and I must do as I
think fit. It's all over and there's no occasion for neither you nor
me to speak of him again I'm going out this afternoon to find a room
for us, and we shall be no worse off than we was before.
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