You know I wouldn't have let you keep coming here if you hadn't promised never to refer to it." "How could I help it?
With that happiness near us--Fulkerson--" "Oh, it's that?
I might have known it!" "No, it isn't that--it's something far deeper.

But if it's nothing you have against me, what is it, Alma, that keeps you from caring for me now as you did then?
I haven't changed." "But I have.

I shall never care for you again, Mr.Beaton; you might as well understand it once for all.

Don't think it's anything in yourself, or that I think you unworthy of me.

I'm not so self-satisfied as that; I know very well that I'm not a perfect character, and that I've no claim on perfection in anybody else.