Yet she must be patient with him.
"I can only give friendship--it's all I'm capable of--it's a flaw in my make-up.

The thing overbalances to one side--I hate a toppling balance.
Let us have done." There was warmth of fury in his last phrases.

He meant she loved him more than he her.

Perhaps he could not love her.

Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted.