Now I am not afraid, but ashamed, terribly ashamed, to let you know the truth.

And yet I am not sorry it happened so, because otherwise I would not have come up here, and all this--your world, your people, and you--have meant a great deal to me.

You will understand when I have made my confession." "No, I don't want that," he protested almost roughly.

"I don't want you to put it that way.

If I can help you, and if you wish to tell me as a friend, that's different.