It was your honest way, John Craig, that first drew me toward you.

Yes, speak your mind." Evidently she is in part prepared for the worst, though she has hoped that the old witchery might be thrown about the young doctor.
"When you treated me in that merciless way, long ago, the regard I felt for you died out of my heart--your spell was broken." "Ah! John, you have thought so, perhaps, just as I did, but I learned that these affections of ours are deeper than we suspect.

I believed I had dropped you forever, but time has taught me what a terrible wrench it must be that would tear the image of John Craig from my heart." "I am sorry to hear you say so, Pauline, for on my part I have been effectually cured.

I even look back and regard our love-making as a foolish, boyish fancy in which neither of us knew our own minds.

Why can't you do the same ?" he says, calmly.
"I am not built that way--my nature is of the tropical order, for my mother was born in Corsica, you know.