"You have given yourself to me! You cannot leave me.

Neither of us is free--ever again." But she struggled away from him.
"Both of us are free--to do what we think right, _always_ Ross! I wouldn't try to stop you if you thought it was your duty to go to the North Pole!" She held him a little way off.

"Let me tell you, dear.

Sit down--let me tell you all about it." But he wouldn't sit down.
"I don't think I want to know the details," he said.

"It doesn't much matter what you're going to do--if you really go away.