"I certainly do know you cannot," said Bertha.  "Well, now, my dear, we will leave off heroics; it is all very fine for you to talk of your conscience, but I don't think that little monitor within is of a very active turn of mind.  If he were he would have absolutely at the first idea shunted off the evil proposal which I happened to make to you. You would never have yielded to the temptation.  Think just for a moment: would Kitty Sharston have done this thing?"