Day by day I came to realize that I couldn't tell the truth, that I must live a great lie to save other hearts from being crushed as life has been crushed out of mine.

I thought of telling them that my husband had died up here--in the North.

And I was fearing suspicion ...
the chance that my father might learn the untruth of it, when you came.
That is all, Philip.

You understand now.

You know why--some day--you must go away and never come back.