I can never feel I possess your trust, because you come to me only when accident has put it out of my power either to do the thing you feared, or to prove myself better than your doubts.' My dear girl, that is how matters stand from the man's point of view; from his, I make no doubt, even more than from mine; for I recognise in Garth Dalmain a stronger man than myself.

Had it been I that day in the church, wanting you as he did, I should have grovelled at your feet and promised to grow up.
Garth Dalmain had the iron strength to turn and go, without a protest, when the woman who had owned him mate the evening before, refused him on the score of inadequacy the next morning.

I fear there is no question of the view he would take of the situation as it now stands." Jane's pale, startled face went to the doctor's heart.
"But Deryck--he--loves--" "Just because he loves, my poor old girl, where you are concerned he could never be content with less than the best." "Oh, Boy, help me! Find a way! Tell me what to do!" Despair was in Jane's eyes.
The doctor considered long, in silence.

At last he said: "I see only one way out.

If Dal could somehow be brought to realise your point of view at that time as a possible one, without knowing it had actually been the cause of your refusal of him, and could have the chance to express himself clearly on the subject--to me, for instance--in a way which might reach you without being meant to reach you, it might put you in a better position toward him.