I am going to speak of my heart, and mind, and feelings, exactly as if they were bones, and muscles, and lungs.

I want you to combine the offices of doctor and confessor in one." The doctor had been contemplating his finger-tips.

He now glanced swiftly at Jane, and nodded; then turned his head and looked into the fire.
"Deryck, mine has been a somewhat lonely existence.

I have never been essential to the life of another, and no one has ever touched the real depths of mine.

I have known they were there, but I have known they were unsounded." The doctor opened his lips, as if to speak; then closed them in a firmer line than before, and merely nodded his head silently.
"I had never been loved with that love which makes one absolutely first to a person, nor had I ever so loved.