"You make it very hard for me to say 'No,'" she said.
"I would like to make it impossible," he said.
"Even when I have told you that I can't--that I don't--love you in the ordinary way ?" she said almost pleadingly.
"I don't want to be loved in the ordinary way," he answered doggedly.
"I should be a perpetual disappointment to you," she said.
"I would rather have even that than--nothing," said Jeff.
One of the tears ran over and fell upon their clasped hands.

"In fact, you want me at any price," she said.
"At any price," said Jeff.
She bent her head and choked back a sob.

"And no one else wants me at all," she whispered.
He stooped towards her.

Perhaps for her peace of mind it was as well that she did not see the sudden fire that blazed in his deep-set eyes as he did so.
"So you'll change your mind," he said, after a moment, to the bowed head.

"You'll have me--you will ?" She caught back another sob and said nothing.
He straightened himself sharply.