"Both were incapable of that.

She arrived at Newport when I was there.

We met, suddenly and unexpectedly, face to face, and when off our guard.

I read her heart, and she read mine, in lightning glimpses.
The pages were shut instantly, and not opened again.

We met once or twice after that, but as mere acquaintances, and I left on the day after she came, because I saw that the discipline was too severe for her, and that I was not only in an equivocal, but dangerous, if not dishonorable position.