"Why?
I have done you no harm!" "Perhaps not," I answered, "yet I cannot see what we gain by raking up this miserable history.

It is both painful and profitless." "I will say no more," she declared, with a sudden note of dignity in her tone.

"I can see that I am judged already in your mind.

After all, it does not really matter.

No one likes to be thought worse of than they deserve, and women are all--a little foolish.