I know myself, too....

To love you as you wish is to care less for you than I already do.

I would not willingly....

Yet, I may try if you wish it....
So that is all the promise I dare make you.

Come--take me home now--if you care to walk as far with me." "And I who am asking you to walk through life with me ?" I said, forcing a laugh.
We turned; she took my arm, and together we moved slowly back through the falling dusk.
And, as we approached her door, came a sudden and furious sound of galloping behind us, and we sprang to the side of the road as the express thundered by in a storm of dust and driving pebbles.
"News," she whispered.