But--what you goin' to do ?" Aldous shook his head, and for the first time that afternoon a look of uneasiness and gloom overspread his face.
"I don't know, Mac.

I'm not ashamed to tell you.

I love her.

If she were to pass out of my life to-morrow I would ask for something that belonged to her, and the spirit of her would live in it for me until I died.

That's how I care, Mac.