She, you see, has after all given something towards a right to enjoy the Burden estates and the Burden wealth; she has given her fragile beauty, her amiability, her worship, no doubt, of the intolerable Edward. And all this payment in the proper coin: so she has in a sense a right. …
Good night, dear one, I think you have it in your power—you might have it in your power—to atone to this little creature. Tomorrow I will tell you why and how.