David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Chapter 42 Page 32

seen him twenty times, if I’ve seen him once, quite in a taking about it — quite put out, you know (and very proper in him as a father; I’m sure I can’t blame him), to think that Miss Agnes was mixing herself up with what oughtn’t to be.’

‘My dear Strong,’ said Mr. Wickfield in a tremulous voice, ‘my good friend, I needn’t tell you that it has been my vice to look for some one master motive in everybody, and to try all actions by one narrow test.

I may have fallen into such doubts as I have had, through this mistake.’

‘You have had doubts, Wickfield,’ said the Doctor, without lifting up his head. ‘You have had doubts.’

‘Speak up, fellow-partner,’