✨📖📕Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood 📕📖✨
‘If there has been a crime, people want a guilty person. Rightly or wrongly does not matter…’
I've already been judged, sir. Whatever you may think of me, it's all the same.
Judged rightly, Grace?
A lady may conceal things as she has a reputation to lose. But I am beyond that.
On Friday he tried a more direct approach. "You may be perfectly frank with me, Grace," he had said. "You need hold nothing back."
"I have no reason not to be frank with you, Sir," she said. "A lady might conceal things, as she has her reputation to lose; but I am beyond that."
"What do you mean, Grace?" he said.
"Only, I was never a lady, Sir, and I've already lost whatever reputation I ever had. I can say anything I like; or I don't wish to, I needn't say anything at all."
"You don't care about my good opinion of you Grace?"
She gave him a sharp look, then continued her stitching. "I have already been judged, Sir. Whatever you may think of me, it's all the same."
"Judged rightly, Grace?" He could not resist asking.
"Rightly or wrongly it does not matter," she said. "People want a guilty person. If there has been a crime, they want to know who did it. They don’t like not knowing."
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, pages 109 - 110 of the movie-tie-in edition
pages 109 - 110 of autograph edition
pages 109 - 110 of 2010 edition