I cannot refute what you have said, but my heart tells me you are wrong." "Would to Heaven that I thought the same!" he rejoined, quickly.

"But I understand the difficulties of the case, my poor Madaline, and you do not." She turned away with a low, dreary sigh, and the light died from her face.
"Madaline," said Lord Arleigh, quietly, "do not think, my darling, that you suffer most--indeed, it is not so.

Think how I love you--think how precious you are to me--and then ask yourself if it is no pain to give you up." "I know it is painful," she continued, sadly, "but, Norman, if the decision and choice rested with me as they do with you, I should act differently." "I would, Heaven knows, if I could," he said, slowly.
"Such conduct is not just to me," she continued, her face flushing with the eagerness of her words.

"I have done no wrong, no harm, yet I am to be driven from your house and home--I am to be sent away from you, divorced in all but name.

I say it is not fair, Norman--not just.