It was a long time before he turned and came to her.
"You have spoken honestly: it is an old fashion of yours.

You believed what you said.

Let me also tell you what you call God's truth, for a moment, Margret.

It will not do you harm."-- He spoke gravely, solemnly.--"When you loved me long ago, selfish, erring as I was, you fulfilled the law of your nature; when you put that love out of your heart, you make your duty a tawdry sham, and your life a lie.

Listen to me.