Now, your hand upon it! To-morrow or next night you will see me to bid me farewell!' He seized the Duchess's hand.
'No, but Fred--let go my hand! What do you mean by holding me so?
If it be love to forget all respect to a woman's present position in thinking of her past, then yours may be so, Frederick.

It is not kind and gentle of you to induce me to come to this place for pity of you, and then to hold me tight here.' 'But see me once more! I have come two thousand miles to ask it.' 'O, I must not! There will be slanders--Heaven knows what! I cannot meet you.

For the sake of old times don't ask it.' 'Then own two things to me; that you did love me once, and that your husband is unkind to you often enough now to make you think of the time when you cared for me.' 'Yes--I own them both,' she answered faintly.

'But owning such as that tells against me; and I swear the inference is not true.' 'Don't say that; for you have come--let me think the reason of your coming what I like to think it.

It can do you no harm.