That was not his fault.

He mistook a romantic admiration for love, and naturally found it would not work.

How could it?
It was not necessary to turn heaven and earth to gain me.

But it _was_ necessary to turn a few small stones.

He could not turn them." "Well, at any rate, he asked you, and you accepted him." "A hundred years ago." "And you have waited for him ever since." "Not at all.