I know why you are acting this way, and how you will feel afterward if you go on.

It isn't anything I will do--" He paused, caught by a wave of feeling.
"Oh, isn't it ?" she blazed, trying to overcome the emotion that was rising in herself.

The calmness of him stirred up memories of the past.

"Well, you keep your sympathy for yourself.

I don't need it.