I tell you she loves me.

I am bound to her, and when--if ever I see her unhappy, I will not stand by and look on quietly.' Roland shrugged.

'The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.

For me, less privileged than my fellows, I have never seen the future.

Consequently I am not in love with it, and to declare myself candidly I do not care for it one snap of the fingers.