In Trust, The Story of a Lady and her Lover

Excerpt: "'My dear, the case is as plain as noonday; you must give this man up.” The case is not plain to me, father-at least, not in your sense. Anne, you are very positive and self-opinionated, but you cannot-it is not possible-set up your judgment against mine on such a point. You, an inexperienced, prejudiced girl, a rustic with no knowledge of the world! What do you know about the man? Oh, I allow he is well enough to look at; he has had the usual amount of education, and so forth; but what do you know about him? That is what I ask. ”Not much, father, said Anne, steadily, but I know him.” Stuff! you, a girl not much over twenty, know a man! Does he tell you, do you suppose, all the adventures of his life? Does he confess his sins to you? A young fellow that has been, trained at a public school, that has been at the university, that has, knocked about the world-is he going to confide all that to you? He would be unworthy the name of gentleman, if he did.