Let there be truth between us--truth at any cost.' 'You see,' she said slowly.

'My whole coming out here--everything I've done lately, has been done in reaction against all I've done and felt before.' 'Would you have married that man--if everything had been on the square ?' 'What do you mean by "on the square"?
I've done nothing to be properly ashamed of!' 'No--no--I was thinking only of him, Biddy, did you love that man ?--really love him ?' 'I'm not sure yet whether I'm capable of what you'd call loving really.
I had a violent attraction to him,'-- he remembered the phrase--'I confess I did feel it dreadfully when he married someone else.

Now it doesn't hurt me.

And of course, he has gone out of my life altogether.
I'm glad he has, and I hope he will keep on the other side of the world.' 'Well, let it stop at that.' He drew a breath of relief.

'I don't believe you really cared for him.