But remember that for nearly twenty years you passed out of my life.

You have come back again wonderfully altered.

You do not wish to keep the story of those years for ever a sort of Bluebeards chamber in our lives ?" "Not I," he answered.

"I would have you do as I have done, rip them out page and chapter, annihilate them utterly.

What have they to do with the life before us?
To you they would seem evil enough, to me they are thronged with horrible memories, with memories which, could I take them with me, would poison heaven itself.