Why do you wish to leave me, when I shall not see you again ?" "The Lord be good to me!" he broke out, all his long-pent passion of dreams rushing to his lips, now that the barrier fell.

"Don't you see it is because I can't bear to let you go?
I hoped to get away without saying it.

I want to be alone.

I want to be with myself and try to realize.

I didn't want to make a babbling idiot of myself--but I am! It is because I don't want another second of your sweetness to leave an added pain when you've gone.