'You have been very good to her.
Was the chair I saw by her bed the one you have been sitting in all night ?' 'I sometimes sat there; sometimes here.' 'I wish I could have sat beside you, and held your hand--I speak frankly.' 'To excess.' 'And why not?
I do not wish to hide from you any corner of my breast, futile as candour may be.

Just Heaven! for what reason is it ordered that courtship, in which soldiers are usually so successful, should be a failure with me ?' 'Your lack of foresight chiefly in indulging feelings that were not encouraged.

That, and my uncle's indiscreet permission to you to travel with us, have precipitated our relations in a way that I could neither foresee nor avoid, though of late I have had apprehensions that it might come to this.

You vex and disturb me by such words of regret.' 'Not more than you vex and disturb me.

But you cannot hate the man who loves you so devotedly ?' 'I have said before I don't hate you.