He isn't really a bad little dog." But she lowered her eyelids and went on: "I was so miserable that I could think only of myself.

This was mean.

It was cruel too.

And besides I had _not_ given it up--not then." * * * * * Marlow changed his tone.
"I don't know much of the psychology of self-destruction.

It's a sort of subject one has few opportunities to study closely.