You know you have a little tendency to do that about everything that goes wrong, and you promised me that you would fight against it." "But--oh, it's so--so shameful," murmured Leslie.

"To love him--unsought--and when I'm not free to love anybody." "There's nothing shameful about it.

But I'm very sorry that you have learned to care for Owen, because, as things are, it will only make you more unhappy." "I didn't LEARN to care," said Leslie, walking on and speaking passionately.

"If it had been like that I could have prevented it.

I never dreamed of such a thing until that day, a week ago, when he told me he had finished his book and must soon go away.