It isn't so at all.

It is I who have been held by bonds I couldn't break, and from the day when you pretended a love you never felt, all the blame lay with you." "What could I do ?" "Be truthful--that was all." "You were not content with the truth.

You forced me to think that I could love you, Only remember what passed between us." "Honesty was still possible, when you came to know yourself better.

You should have said to me in so many words: 'I can't look forward to our future with any courage; if I marry it must be a man who has more to offer.' Do you think I couldn't have endured to hear that?
You have never understood me.

I should have said: 'Then let us shake hands, and I am your friend to help you all I can.'" "You say that _now_----" "I should have said it at any time." "But I am not so mean as you think me.