"I don't want to be happy.

_That_ isn't it.

But to be sure that one's not afraid--" (She repeated to herself several times _Hrabrost_--the Russian for "bravery.") "That is more than you, John, or than I or than--" She broke off, looked at him suddenly as he told me "very tenderly and kindly as though she liked me." "John, I'm your friend.

I've been bad to you, but I'm your friend.

I don't understand why I've been so bad to you because, I would be fur-rious--yes, fur-rious--if any one else were bad to you.