"I have pressed you hard, Miss Saltonstall--too hard, I know, for a man who has already had his answer; but I did not deserve this.

Good-by." "Stop," she said, gently.

"I meant not to hurt you, Captain Carroll.
If I had, it is not thus I would have done.

I need not have met you here.

Would you have loved me the less if I had avoided this meeting ?" He could not reply.