We have agreed to forget everything that suggests the word I hate.

But that you and I have been lovers and looked--I, at all events--to be something more, this you must let him know." "I can never do that." "Without it, how are you to disentangle yourself ?" "I promise you he shall see no more of me." "Such a promise is idle, and you know it.

Remember, too, that Narramore and I are friends.

He will speak to me of you, and I can't play a farce with him.

It would be intolerable discomfort to me, and grossly unfair to him.