I am sure it would.

I don't know why I am as I am; but I shall try to change myself.

You have borne with me since we were children.

Won't you bear with me for a little longer ?" She shook her head, but did not trust herself to speak.
"I have lost you," he said, and she nodded.
"Then I am lost indeed!" said he, and he knew it, too; but with a gesture of the hand she begged him not to say that.
"Without your love to help me----" he began.
"You shall always have that," she told him with shining eyes, "always, always." And what could he do but look at her with the wonder and the awe that come to every man who, for one moment in his life, knows a woman well?
"You can love me still, Grizel!" His voice was shaky.
"Just the same," she answered, and I suppose he looked uplifted.

"But you should be sorry," she said gravely, and it was then that Elspeth came back.