But she dropped her eyes.
"I loved you ever since I first saw you at Los Osos," he went on quickly; "I said to myself even then, that if there was a woman that would fill my life, and make me what she wished me to be, it was you.

I even fancied that day that you understood me better than any woman, or even any man, that I had ever met before.

I loved you through all that miserable business with that man, even when my failure to make you happy with another brought me no nearer to you.

I have loved you always.

I shall love you always.