Mannering answered in monosyllables.
When at last he put his cup down he rose to go.
"You are quite sure, Hester," he said.

"You have made up your mind ?" She, too, rose, and came over to him.
"You know that I am right," she answered, quietly.

"The life you offer me would be paradise, but I dare not even think of it.

I may not do any good here, perhaps I don't, but I can't come away." "You are a true daughter of your sex," he said, smiling.

"The keynote of your life must be sacrifice." "Perhaps we are not so unwise, after all," she answered, "for I think that there are more happy women in the world than men." "There are more, I think, who deserve to be, dear," he answered, holding her hand for a moment.