I knew there was something, all the time.
Of course, I could not tell what.

But it must have been agony for you to offer to tell me--of this." "Oh, I might have told you then.

Perhaps it would have been braver if I had.

I tried it a dozen times, but couldn't.

I don't pretend to say whether it was selfishness or cowardice, or just kindness to--her.