This put my mother into a great passion; she told me she knew it would be to no purpose to speak to my father upon any such subject; that he knew too well what was my interest to give his consent to anything so much for my hurt; and that she wondered how I could think of any such thing after the discourse I had had with my father, and such kind and tender expressions as she knew my father had used to me; and that, in short, if I would ruin myself, there was no help for me; but I might depend I should never have their consent to it; that for her part she would not have so much hand in my destruction; and I should never have it to say that my mother was willing when my father was not.
Anyám erre nagyon haragos lett, úgy tervem, mint azon vakmerőségem miatt, hogy ily hangon merek beszélni, holott apám olyan jóakarattal intett, tudva, hogy vesztemre török. Nem is értette, hogyan gondolhattam, hogy az apámmal folytatott bensőséges beszélgetés után efféle önpusztító tetthez kérem a beleegyezését.