I told my falsehoods placidly, for they were meaningless in my eyes.

I have the satisfaction of knowing that you cannot, without inconsistency, find fault with me.
"And now I speak as one who would gladly be on terms of kindness with you.

You know me, Mallard; you must be aware how impossible it was for me to wait two years.

As for Cecily, her one word, again and again repeated on the journey, was, 'How unkind I shall seem to them!' and I know that it was the seeming disrespect to you which most of all distressed her.

For her sake, I make it my petition that you will let the past be past.