And you doubted it so strenuously that, perhaps I might be excused for doubting it myself....
What is the use of talking this way, Geraldine ?" There was a ring of exasperation in her laughter.

She lifted his glass, sipped a little, and, looking over it at him: "I drink to our doubts concerning each other: may nothing ever occur to disturb them." Her cheeks had begun to burn, her eyes were too bright, her voice unmodulated.
"Whether or not you ever again take the trouble to ask me to trust you in that way," she said, "I'll tell you now why I don't and why I never could.

It may amuse you.

Shall I ?" "By all means," he replied amiably; "but it seems to me as though you are rather rough on me." "You were rougher with me the first time I saw you, after all those years.

I met you with perfect confidence, remembering what you once were.