"I feel sure it was that, for I have often wondered how everybody did not know.

I have broken my promise.

I used always to be able to keep a promise.

I had every other fault,--I was hard and proud and intolerant,--but I was true.

I think I was vain of that, though I see now it was only something I could not help; from the moment when I had a difficulty in keeping a promise, I ceased to keep it.