16/17 It would be altogether improper. I cannot allow you to say that I am cruel because I do what I feel to be my duty. You will see other people." "A great many perhaps." "And will learn to,--to,--to forget him." "Never! I will not forget him. I should hate myself if I thought it possible. What would love be worth if it could be forgotten in that way ?" As he heard this he reflected whether his own wife, this girl's mother, had ever forgotten her early love for that Burgo Fitzgerald whom in her girlhood she had wished to marry. |