I believe they should be perfect.

And because they have not quite that perfection which should be theirs I have driven the cold facts home as hard as I could.

I have been a fool and an iconoclast instead of a builder.

This confession to you is proof that you have brought me face to face with the greatest adventure of all." The colour in her cheeks had centred in two bright spots.

Her lips formed words which came slowly, strangely.
"I guess--I understand," she said.