David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Chapter 45 Page 29

what it is, that may help to mediate between us, I implore that friend to speak!’

There was a profound silence.

After a few moments of painful hesitation, I broke the silence.

‘Mrs. Strong,’ I said, ‘there is something within my knowledge, which I have been earnestly entreated by Doctor Strong to conceal, and have concealed until tonight. But, I believe the time has come when it would be mistaken faith and delicacy to conceal it any longer, and when your appeal absolves me from his injunction.’

She turned her face towards me for a moment, and I knew that I was right. I could not have resisted its entreaty, if the assurance that it gave me had been less convincing.