"And you do not scorn me ?" said he.

"I love myself," said I.

"Ah! yes," said he, "you told me so; and I scorned you for it.

Now-- But what brings you here, Humphrey ?" The change in his voice was so sudden and resolute that it forbade me to say another word about the matter our hearts were fullest of.

Who knows but that, had I spoken then, he might have guessed the truth; and so our lives might have broken asunder at that point?
Now the chance was past.
But the chance was come to tell him my news, which I did, then and there, and marvellously it moved him.