Of course he didn't ask me for money; he had no idea that I could lend him even a pound.
But what I wish you to know is that he hadn't spoken to me again in the old way.

He said he had done wrong, when he first came to know me; he begged me to forgive him that, and only wanted me to be his friend." "Of course." "Oh, don't be ungenerous: that's so unlike you." "I didn't mean it ungenerously.

In his position I should have done exactly as he did." "Say you believe me.

There was not a word of love between us.

He told me all about the miseries of his life--that was all; and I pitied him so.