They cannot help it.

I will write to Lady Cantourne if you like." "No, I will tell her." So he bade her good-bye, and those things that lovers say were duly said; but they are not for us to chronicle.

Such words are better left to be remembered or forgotten as time and circumstance and result may decree.

For one may never tell what words will do when they are laid within the years like the little morsel of leaven that leaveneth the whole..