This avowal he had never expected to make.

In fact he had never contemplated its possibility.

But now he felt a certain satisfaction in telling it.

Every item, as it was related, seemed thrown aside forever.

"And now then, my dear Annie," he said, when he had finished, "what do you think of all that ?" "Well," she said, "in the first place, I am still more of the opinion than I was before, that you never were really in love with her.