His voice, always very mild and interrogative, gradually became as soft and as tenderly argumentative as if he had been talking to a much-loved child.

He stood watching her, and she presently turned round again, but this time she did not look at him, and she spoke in a quietness in which there was a visible trace of effort.
"There are a great many reasons why I should not marry," she said, "more than I can explain to you.

As for my happiness, I am very happy.

Your offer seems strange to me, for more reasons also than I can say.

Of course you have a perfect right to make it.