21/32 "You know long ago what my opinion of you is, and yet you seem to take no notice. Now I must be off, as you know, to-night; not for any reason of my own, as I told you yesterday, but to carry out a contract. I may not see you for many months again; and you may fall in love with a Preventive man." "I never fall in love with anybody. Why should I go from one extreme to the other? He is an honest fellow, with no more brains than this ash-tree over us. |