If you do not come to me then, I shall know that you have changed, and shall not blame you in the least.

You are free to choose any one else.

I have so little encouragement to give you that I shall not expect you to submit to this ordeal." But I think her firmness was a little shaken, and she looked at me rather timidly when I thanked her very quietly and said that at the time appointed I would speak to her again.

I supposed she had not realised the strength of my feelings.
'Ursula, I was by no means hopeless.

And as the months passed on my hopes grew.
'I saw her daily, and after the first awkwardness had passed we were good friends.