They were just and true.

They gave me courage to believe the battle was over; that in soul and heart you were at last free." She lowered her eyes in confusion to the floor, her bosom rising and falling to quick breathing.
"And now you discover me hesitating, undecided," she whispered, her lips trembling.

"I know I am; there are moments when I hold myself unworthy of love.

Yet believe me, I am honest, sincere, unselfish in all my thought regarding you.

Perhaps the trouble is that I know myself, my nature, far too well; I dare not trust it to bring you happiness, unless I can come to you with unsullied conscience." "Is it thought of divorce which yet remains so repugnant ?" She glanced up into his questioning face, her own cheeks flushing.
"I shrink from it in actual pain," she confessed, in instant frankness.
"My whole nature revolts.