'Where is your independence, Grizel ?' I say to her, and she shakes her sorrowful head.

The little girl I used to be need not look for me any more; if we were to meet in the Den she would not know me now." Ah, if only Tommy could have loved in this way! He would have done it if he could.

If we could love by trying, no one would ever have been more loved than Grizel.

"Am I to be condemned because I cannot ?" he sometimes said to himself in terrible anguish; for though pretty thoughts came to him to say to her when she was with him, he suffered anguish for her when he was alone.

He knew it was tragic that such love as hers should be given to him, but what more could he do than he was doing?
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