I cannot be so false.

I must go, old fellow; but I know all that you would say to me, and I will endeavour to escape honestly from this trouble.' And so he went.
Yes;--to escape honestly from that trouble! But how?
It is just that trouble from which there is no honest escape,--unless a man may honestly break his word.

He had engaged himself to her so much that, simply to ignore her would be cowardly as well as false.

There was but one thing that he could do, but one step that he could take, by which his security and his self-respect might both be maintained.

He would tell her the exact truth, and put it to her whether, looking at their joint circumstances, it would not be better that they should--part.