This man will take me for what I am." "And you have come here to-night to ask me to forget, too ?" There was no bitterness in his tone, but there was a strong leaven of regret.
"Well, I promise to forget." "It was not necessary to ask you that," generously.

"But I thought I would come to you and tell you everything.

I did not wish you to misjudge me.

For the world will say that I am marrying this good man for his money; whereas, if he was a man of the most moderate circumstances, I should still marry him." "And who might this lucky man be?
To win a woman, such as I know you to be, this man must have some extraordinary attributes." And all at once a sense of infinite relief entered into his heart: if she were indeed married, there would no longer be that tantalizing doubt on his part, that peculiar attraction which at one time resembled love and at another time was simply fascination.

She would pass out of his life definitely.