Come, Frank; do not quarrel with me.

You know,--you ought to know,--that I should have loved you had it not been that such love would have been bad for both of us." "It is a kind of self-restraint I do not understand." "Because you are not a woman." "Why did you twit me with changing my love ?" "Because I am a woman.

Can't you forgive as much as that to me ?" "Certainly.

Only you must not think that I have been false because I now love her so dearly." "I do not think you are false.

I would do anything to help you if there were anything I could do.