"But you are a good man, and you'll understand.

I believed I was strong enough to go on in silence; but I'm human like everybody else.

To tell someone who is kind and who will understand!" "There, there!" he said.

There was a hint of tears in her voice.
"That's all right.

We'll get together this afternoon; and you can pretend that I am your father." "No! I have run away from my father.