Why should I deceive you by pretending to what is impossible?
Nature is stronger than even your wishes, Graydon, and cannot be ignored." She spoke hesitatingly, feeling her way across most difficult and dangerous ground, but her decision was unmistakable, and he said, quietly, "I am answered.

See, we have wandered far from the house.

Had we not better return ?" After a few moments of silence she asked, "Are you so rich in friends that you have no place for me ?" "Why, certainly, Madge," he replied, in cordial, offhand tones, "we are friends.

There's nothing else for us to be.

I don't pretend to understand your scruples.