I'm going to--going to keep my promise, sir! I'm going to keep it!" Franklin's heart stood cold.

"You're going to keep your promise," he said slowly and coldly.

"You're going to keep a girl's promise, from which death released you years ago--released you honourably.

You were too young then to know what you were doing---you didn't know what love could mean--yet you are released from that promise.

And now, for the sake of a mere sentiment, you are going to ruin my life for me, and you're going to ruin your own life, throw it away, all alone out here, with nothing about you such as you ought to have.