Mrs. Oliphant 
In Trust, The Story of a Lady and her Lover [EPUB ebook] 

Excerpt: "’My dear, the case is as plain as noonday; you must give this man up.”The case is not plain to me, father-at least, not in your sense.”Anne, you are very positive and self-opinionated, but you cannot-it is not possible-set up your judgment against mine on such a point. You, an inexperienced, prejudiced girl, a rustic with no knowledge of the world! What do you know about the man? Oh, I allow he is well enough to look at; he has had the usual amount of education, and so forth; but what do you know about him? that is what I ask.”Not much, father, ‘ said Anne, steadily; ‘but I know him.”Stuff! you, a girl not much over twenty, know a man! Does he tell you, do you suppose, all the adventures of his life? Does he confess his sins to you? A young fellow that has been trained at a public school, that has been at the university, that has knocked about the world-is he going to confide all that to you? He would be unworthy the name of gentleman if he did.’"