How can I love you, if that is so ?" "Could you love me ?" she asked calmly.
"I--I don't know.

I did love--I do care for--another woman.

I can't marry her, though I am given to understand there is a chance.

Perhaps it is partly ambition," he said honestly, "for I am quite sure she has never cared for me, never thought of me in that way.

I think a man can't stand that long." "No; only women can.