Let me help! Don't let there be only two--let us be three! Don't you see what a difference it would make?
I will work and save every penny I can for him and take every bit of the care from his shoulders; but can't you understand how much easier it would be if you would only let me help you too?
I could hardly keep the tears back a moment ago when I saw you sink down here.

I can't see you unhappy like this and not try to comfort you." "You do help me," she murmured softly.

Her eyes had now dropped to the cushion at her side.
"Yes, but not--Oh, Ruth, don't you see how I love you! What difference does this accident make--what difference does anything make if we have each other ?" He had his hand on hers now, and was bending over, his eyes eager for some answer in her own.

"I have suffered so," he went on, "and I am so tired and so lonely without you.

When you wouldn't understand me that time when I came to you after the tunnel blew up, I went about like one in a dream--and then I determined to forget it all, and you, and everything--but I couldn't, and I can't now.