He said he couldn't possibly marry a girl with nothing but the clothes on her back.

I cried very much at the time, and thought my heart was broken.

But--it wasn't!" "I should hope it wouldn't break for such a selfish rascal!" said Reay, warmly.
"Do you think he was more selfish than most ?" queried Mary, thoughtfully--"There's a good many who would do as he did." A silence followed.

She sat down and resumed her work.
"Have you finished your story ?" she asked Reay--"It has interested me so much that I'm hoping there's some more to tell." As she spoke to him he started as if from a dream.

He had been watching her so earnestly that he had almost forgotten what he had previously been talking about.