You said that you would not marry me because you did not love me.

Supposing that you learned to love me, say in a year's time, Beatrice, would you marry me then ?" "I would marry any man whom I loved," she answered.
"Then if you learn to love me you will marry me ?" "Oh, this is ridiculous," she said.

"It is not probable, it is hardly possible, that such a thing should happen.

If it had been going to happen it would have happened before." "It might come about," he answered; "your heart might soften towards me.
Oh, say yes to this.

It is a small request, it costs you nothing, and it gives me hope, without which I cannot live.