Go back to the old days, when you knew nothing of the world but me.

Can you remember ?" "Yes, yes!" "Then you certainly recall a time when, if I had simply given directions, you would have been mine, Ruth.

I could have married you the moment you became a woman.

Is that true ?" "Yes," she whispered, "that is perfectly true." The coldness that passed over her taught her for the first time how truly she dreaded that marriage which had been postponed, but which inevitably hung over her head.
"But I didn't want such a wife," continued John Mark.

"You would have been an undeveloped child, really; you would never have grown up.