Why should you cause me needless pain and suffering?
It was right then, it is not right now.

Besides, you know me too well to think that I would annoy you or thrust myself upon you.

But I will do as you wish." "Thank you," she said quietly.

But she turned her dark face toward him, and looked at him for a moment very gently, almost lovingly.

Where was the use of trying to conceal what would not be hidden?
Every word he spoke told of his unchanged love, although the phrases were short and simple.