The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne Chapter 25 Page 10

said Zenobia.

“Had I not, Heaven is my witness the knowledge should have been as free to you as me. It is only three days since I knew the strange fact that threatens to make me poor; and your own acquaintance with it, I suspect, is of at least as old a date. I fancied myself affluent. You are aware, too, of the disposition which I purposed making of the larger portion of my imaginary opulence, — nay, were it all, I had not hesitated. Let me ask you, further, did I ever propose or intimate any terms of compact, on which depended this — as the world would consider it — so important sacrifice?”

“You certainly spoke of none,” said Hollingsworth.

“Nor meant any,” she responded.