Those walls--" "But not my sins, not my selfishness, not the wrong I have done! Even all that has happened to me, or may happen to me, wouldn't be punishment enough for that.

Now you asked me if you were not my friend?
Of course you are not.

How could you be ?" "It would be easier now than ever before," she said.

But he shook his head from side to side, slowly, dully, monotonously.
"No, no," he said, "it would not be right,--I would not allow it." "I remember now," she said slowly, "how you hesitated.

It must have been agony for you.