I can't make you understand my position.

You say my behaviour has not been straightforward.

In the ordinary sense of the word it has not;--there let it rest.

Tell Ida what you will of me, and let me disappear from her world." "The plain English of all which," cried Abraham angrily, "is, that, as far as you are concerned, you would be quite willing to let the girl live on false hopes, just to have the pleasure of her society as long as you care for it." "Not so, not so at all! I value Ida's friendship as I value that of no other woman, and I am persuaded that, if I were free with her, I could reconcile her entirely to our connection remaining one of friendship, and nothing more." Waymark, in his desperate straits, all but persuaded himself that he told the truth.

Mr.Woodstock gazed at him in doubt.