'A woman may wish some things she does not care to tell!' 'Are you really glad you are going, dearest ?--as I MUST call you just once,' said the young man, gazing earnestly into her face, which struck him as looking far too rosy and radiant to be consistent with ever so little regret at leaving him behind.
'I take great interest in foreign trips, especially to the shores of the Mediterranean: and everybody makes a point of getting away when the house is turned out of the window.' 'But you do feel a little sadness, such as I should feel if our positions were reversed ?' 'I think you ought not to have asked that so incredulously,' she murmured.

'We can be near each other in spirit, when our bodies are far apart, can we not ?' Her tone grew softer and she drew a little closer to his side with a slightly nestling motion, as she went on, 'May I be sure that you will not think unkindly of me when I am absent from your sight, and not begrudge me any little pleasure because you are not there to share it with me ?' 'May you! Can you ask it ?...

As for me, I shall have no pleasure to be begrudged or otherwise.

The only pleasure I have is, as you well know, in you.

When you are with me, I am happy: when you are away, I take no pleasure in anything.' 'I don't deserve it.