Don't say such things to me.

I--it's difficult enough for me now--to think what to do--You will not speak to me again that way, will you?
Because, if you do, I must send you away....

And that will be--hard." "Once," he said, "you spoke about men--how they come crashing through the barriers of friendship.

Am I like that ?" She hesitated, looked at him.
"There were no barriers." "No barriers!" "None--to keep you out.

I should have seen to it; I should have been prepared; but you came so naturally into my friendship--inside the barriers--that I opened my eyes and found you there--and remembered, too late, alas--" "Too late ?" "Too late to shut you out.