Why not wait awhile?
Give me a chance! See if I do not change.

I may." "Oh yes, wait! Change.

You may change.

Haven't I waited?
Haven't I walked the floor night after night! when you haven't been here?
Bear with you--yes, yes! Who's to bear with me when my heart is breaking?
Oh, God!" she suddenly added, with passionate vigor, "I'm miserable! I'm miserable! My heart aches! It aches!" She clutched her breast and swung from the room, moving with that vigorous stride that had once appealed to him so, and still did.

Alas, alas! it touched him now, but only as a part of a very shifty and cruel world.