I was very, very young.

Then I came here and saw what I had got.

Possibly it is because I am sensitive that I never let Tom know.

They expected me to amount to something; but I don't believe his welcome would be less hearty to a failure--he is a good heart." "Failure!" she cried, and clapped her hands and laughed.
"I'm really not very tragic about it, though I must seem consumed with self-pity," he returned, smiling.

"It is only that I have dropped out of the world while Tom is still in it." "Dropped out of the world!'" she echoed, impatiently.