It ended in his bursting into tears.

You love him, and so do I.Can you wonder that I let him have his way?
The result is that I am doubly bound to tell you nothing, by the most sacred promise that a man can give.

My dear lady, I cordially side with you in this matter; I long to relieve your anxieties.

But what can I do ?" He stopped, and waited--gravely waited--to hear my reply.
I had listened from beginning to end without interrupting him.

The extraordinary change in his manner, and in his way of expressing himself, while he was speaking of Eustace, alarmed me as nothing had alarmed me yet.