“Why did you never let me know? How dared you keep it from me? I will
go to law about it and have you hanged!”
“If I could have thought”--she began, in a whisper; “if I have by
chance done wrong”--
“Wrong!” I cried violently, “you have done me nothing but wrong since
I came here. You have always misunderstood and disbelieved in me; and
now, it seems, you had no right to adopt me at all.”