I should have told you soon.

I tell you now to reassure you.

I love her." Aaron King made his declaration to his two friends with a simple dignity, but with a feeling that thrilled them with the force of his earnestness and the purity and strength of his passion.
Conrad Lagrange--world-worn, scarred by his years of contact with the unclean, the vicious, and debasing passions of mankind--grasped the young man's hand, while his eyes shone with an emotion his habitual reserve could not conceal.

"I'm glad for you, Aaron"-- he said, adding reverently--"as your mother would be glad." "I have known that you would tell me this, sometime Mr.King," said Myra Willard.

"I knew it, I think, before you, yourself, realized; and I, too, am glad--glad for my girl, because I know what such a love will mean to her.