Upon that score, I had hoped that your mind was easy.
As I say, I think you attach more importance to money
than those who have tested its powers would agree to--but
that's neither here nor there. You did not get on well on
600 pounds a year--and that is enough. You shall never
have less than twice that amount, whether we keep together
or not--and if it ought to be three times the amount,
that doesn't matter.
"You don't seem to realize, Edith"--she spoke with
increased animation--"that you are my caprice. You are
the possession that I am proudest of and fondest of.
There is nothing else that appeals to me a hundredth
part as much as you do. Since I became independent,
the one real satisfaction I have had is in being able
to do things for you--to have you with me, and make
you share in the best that the world can offer.
And if with it all you remain unhappy, why then you see
I don't know what to do."
"Oh, I know--I behave very badly!" Lady Cressage had risen,
and with visible agitation began now to pace the room.
"I deserve to be thrown into the lake--I know it
well enough! But Celia--truly--I'm as incapable
of understanding it as you are. It must be that I am
possessed by devils--like the people in the New Testament.
Perhaps someone will come along who can cast them out.
I don't seem able to do it myself.
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