I told you I had met with a disappointment which had broken me for life.

There was no need to explain further.

The only hopeless wretchedness in this world is the wretchedness that women cause." "And the only unalloyed happiness," said Crayford, "the happiness that women bring." "That may be your experience of them," Wardour answered; "mine is different.

All the devotion, the patience, the humility, the worship that there is in man, I laid at the feet of a woman.

She accepted the offering as women do--accepted it, easily, gracefully, unfeelingly--accepted it as a matter of course.