But you are irreproachable and incorruptible.

I believe you are above temptation." "Oh, you don't know me," she interposed quietly.

"But even if I were all these things, why should it vex you ?" "Why ?" he said.

"Because you hold me back, you check me at every turn.
You harness me to your chariot wheels, and I have to run in the path of virtue whether I will or not!" He broke off with a laugh that had in it a note of savagery.
"Don't you even care to know what was in that letter that you never had ?" he asked abruptly.
"Tell me!" she said.
"I told you that I was mad to have missed you that day.

I begged you to let me have a line before you came again.