Besides, if I said she did not love you, I know you would not believe me." "You are silent," he pursued.

"I suppose you have no good news to impart.

No matter.

If she feels for me positive coldness and aversion, it is a sign I do not deserve her." "Do you doubt yourself?
Do you consider yourself the inferior of Colonel de Hamal ?" "I love Miss Fanshawe far more than de Hamal loves any human being, and would care for and guard her better than he.

Respecting de Hamal, I fear she is under an illusion; the man's character is known to me, all his antecedents, all his scrapes.