Thee remembers that ?" "It was so," he put in hastily.
"No, not for a moment so, though I was blinded to think for an instant that it was.

Thee subtly took the one way which could have made me listen to thee.

Thee wanted help, thee said; and if a word of mine could help thee now and then, should I withhold it, so long as I thought thee honest ?" "Do you think I was not honest in wanting your friendship ?" "Nay, it was not friendship thee wanted, for friendship means a giving and a getting.

Thee was bent on getting what was, indeed, of but little value save to the giver; but thee gave nothing; thee remembered nothing of what was given thee." "It is not so, it is not so," he urged eagerly, nervously.

"I gave, and I still give." "In those old days, I did not understand," she went on, "what it was thee wanted.