Let us part thus." "Can you not give some hope that in the distance, when these troubles are over, should we both be spared, you may--" "No, Captain Forster, I am sure it could never be so; if we ever meet again, we will meet as we part now--as friends.

And now I can stay no longer; they will be missing me," and, turning, she entered the house before he could speak again.
It was some minutes before he followed her.

He had not really thought that she would go with him; perhaps he had hardly wished it, for on such an expedition a woman would necessarily add to the difficulty and danger; but he had thought that she would have told him that his love was returned, and for perhaps the first time in his life he was serious in his protestation of it.
"What does it matter ?" he said at last, as he turned; "'tis ten thousand to one against our meeting again; if we do, I can take it up where it breaks off now.

She has acknowledged that she would have liked me if she had been sure that I was in earnest.

Next time I shall be so.