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I can't spoil your beautiful life by joining it to mine!" She drew his arm about her shoulders again.
"You will spoil it if you go away.

Oh! Garth, you dear, foolish man! When will you understand that love is the only thing that matters?
If you had committed all the sins in the Decalogue, I shouldn't care! You're mine now"-- jealously--"my lover.

And I'm not going to be thrust out of your life for some stupid scruple.

Let the past take care of itself.