If I cannot do that, I can at least believe that you were mad, for no man in his senses would think of doing what you threatened! If you wish to live so that I may tell God in my prayers that I would have been your wife if I could, and that I hope to meet you in heaven--then, for my sake, be a man, and not a weakling willing to stoop to the most contemptible villainy to cheat a woman.

Your brother was nearly killed in doing his duty here and you have taken his place.

Make it your true calling, as I have made it mine to nurse the sick.

At any moment, either of us may be called to face danger, till we die; we can feel that we are living the same life, for the same hope.

Is that nothing ?' 'The same life?
A nun and a soldier ?' 'Why not, if we risk it that others may be safe ?' 'And in the same hope?
Ah no, Angela! That is where it all breaks down!' 'No.