But I must not have it on my conscience that I am hiding from Endymion and Narcissus what they have a right to know.

Of course they would be angry if they knew that I--that I was fond of you at all; but they would have no right, for they could not have forbidden or prevented it.

Now if our prospects were what folks would call happier, why then in earnest of them you might kiss me, but then you would be bound to go to my brothers and tell them.

But since it can all come to nothing--" A ghost of a smile finished the sentence.
"This war cannot last for ever." "It seems to have lasted ever since I can remember.

But what difference could its ending make?
Ah, yes, then I should lose you!" she cried in dismay, but added with as sudden remorse: "Forgive my selfishness!" "You are adorable," said he, and they laughed and picked up their pencils.
Dorothea's casuistry might prove her ignorant of love and its perils, as a child is of fire; but having, as she deemed, discovered the limits of her duty and set up her terms with Raoul upon them, she soon developed a wonderful cunning in the art of being loved.