I liked her very much." "But you would have loved her ?" "I don't know.

I don't find that task of loving so very easy.

It might have been that I should have learned to hate her." "If so, it is better for you, and better for her, that she has gone." "It is better.

I am sure of it.

And yet I grieve for her, and in thinking of her I almost feel as though I were guilty of her death." "But she never suspected that you did not love her ?" "Oh no.