I fought against it in the beginning--tried not to love you.

Afterwards, I gave in, but I never dreamed that--you--would come to care, too.

That seemed something quite beyond the bounds of human possibility." "Did it?
I can't see why it should ?" "Can't you ?" He smiled a little.

"If you were a man who has lived under a cloud for over twenty years, who has nothing in the world to recommend him, and only a tarnished reputation as his life-work, you, too, would have thought it inconceivable.

Anyway, I did, and, thinking that, I dared to give myself the pleasure of seeing you--of being sometimes in your company.