I fought against that conviction.

I would not entertain it.

Then came for me the fatal day when I heard you tell the Duchess of Aytoun that you had never seen the woman you would care to make your wife.

I heard your confession, but would not give in; I clung to the idea of winning your love, even after I had hoped against hope, and tried to make you care for me.

At last came the night out on the balcony, when I resolved to risk all, to ask you for your love--do you remember it?
You were advocating the cause of another; I asked you why you did not speak for yourself.