"I don't know.

Perhaps that is what I do wish.

Ah, but what are wishes! I know now that they don't matter at all." "Yes, they matter," he assured her, in the voice of one looking upon death.

"If you no longer want to love me, you will cease to do it soon enough." His manner changed to bitterness.

"So don't be cast down, Grizel, for the day of your deliverance is at hand." But again she disappointed him, and as the flag must be saved at whatever cost, he said.
"It has come already.