Perhaps I'm more of a man than you thought.

Marry another, if you will; but I'm the man for you, and I know it, and you'll go wrong if you don't too.

Come! let your father sleep well.

Give me your hand." All through this surprising speech of Robert's, which was a revelation of one who had been previously dark to her, she had steeled her spirit as she felt herself being borne upon unexpected rapids, and she marvelled when she found her hand in his.
Dismayed, as if caught in a trap, she said,-- "You know I've no love for you at all." "None--no doubt," he answered.
The fit of verbal energy was expended, and he had become listless, though he looked frankly at her and assumed the cheerfulness which was failing within him.
"I wish to remain as I am," she faltered, surprised again by the equally astonishing recurrence of humility, and more spiritually subdued by it.
"I've no heart for a change.

Father will understand.