"You look stern, and I don't understand why you have come." "To see you, Hester," he answered, with a sudden impulse of kindness.
"Ah, no!" she interrupted, choking back a little sob.

"We both know so well that it is not that.

It is pity which brings you, pity and nothing else.

You know very well what a difference it makes to me.

If I have your work to do, and a letter sometimes, and see you now and then, I can bear everything.