You don't understand....
Even that would mean misery for you--and I--I could not bear.

Don't you see?
Even now, before you have done your allotted part, I am wanting--oh, wanting--to let you go....

But I must not; I must not.

You must go on ...

and bear it for a little while more--and then...." There was a tension somewhere, a string somewhere that was stretched tight and vibrating.