But it may well make me solemn and fearful, to think, after all the waves and billows that have gone over me, such a splendor should be mine!--But, do you really love me, Hesper--or am I walking in my sleep?
I had thought, 'Surely now at last I shall never love again!'-- and instead of that, here I am loving, as I never loved before!--and doubting whether I ever did love before!" "I never loved before," said Hesper.

"Surely to love must be a good thing, when it has made you so good! I am a poor creature beside you, Godfrey, but I am glad to think whatever I know of love you have taught me.

It is only I who have to be ashamed!" "That is all your goodness!" interrupted Godfrey.

"Yet, at this moment, I can not quite be sorry for some things I ought to be sorry for: but for them I should not be at your side now--happier than I dare allow myself to feel.

I dare hardly think of those things, lest I should be glad I had done wrong." "There are things I am compelled to know of myself, Godfrey, which I shall never speak to you about, for even to think of them by your side would blast all my joy.