"Would you? Then I suppose I ought to hold my tongue. But, Alice, I shall never have the power of speaking to you again as I speak now. Since we have been out together, we have been dear friends; is it not so?"
"And shall we not always be dear friends?"
"No, certainly not. How will it be possible? Think of it. How can I really be your friend when you are the mistress of that man's house in Cambridgeshire?"
"George!"

"I suppose I ought to hold my tongue. But, Alice, I shall never be able to speak to you again as I speak now. On this trip, we have been dear friends; is it not so?"
"And shall we not always be dear friends?"
"No, certainly not. How can we, when you are the mistress of that man's house in Cambridgeshire?"
"George!"
