Because I am young?
That seems no recommendation in his eyes! Because I love him?
He does not believe it.
Once or twice I have tried to tell him so, and he has gently pooh-poohed me.
Sometimes it has occurred to me that, perhaps, if I had him all to myself, I might even yet bring him back to me--might reconcile him to my paucity of attractions, and persuade him of my honesty; but what chance have I, when every day, every hour of the day if he likes to put himself to such frequent pain, he may see and bitterly note the contrast between the woman of his choice and the woman of his fate--the woman from whom he is irrevocably parted, and the woman to whom he is as irrevocably joined.

And I think that hardly a day passes that he does not give himself the opportunity of instituting the comparison.
Not that he is unkind to me; do not think that.

It would be impossible to Roger to be unkind to any thing, much more to any weakly woman thing that is quite in his own power.

No, no! there is no fear of that.

I have no need to be a grizzle.