"Do you think I would?
Do you think I could ?...

or dare?
Don't you understand ?" She faltered--"but then...." she added, and was silent for a long minute.

I felt the throb of a thousand pulses in my head, on my temples.

"Oh, yes, I care," she said slowly, "but that--that makes it all the worse.

Why, yes, I care--yes, yes.