On that night, I did think--yes, I did think, that I was something to you!--that you could not have been so sweet--so adorable--in the sight of the whole world--unless you had meant that--in time it would all come right.

And so next day, on our ride, I took the tone I did.

I was a fool; of course.

All men are, when they strike too soon.

But if you had had any real feeling in your heart for me--if you had cared one ten-thousandth part for me, as I care for you, you couldn't have treated me as you did last night--so outrageously--so cruelly!" The strong man beside her was now trembling from head to foot.
Constance, hard-pressed, conscience-struck, utterly miserable, did not know what to reply.