I could not conceive that you would marry him, and I swore to myself to seek you out at the earliest moment possible.

Don't draw back from me, dear, but listen--you must listen.

This means as much to you as to me." "But I cannot--I must not." "What is there to prevent?
Your pride of the South?
Your adherence to the Confederacy?
I care nothing for that; we are not Rebel and Yankee, but man and woman.

As to Le Gaire, I have no respect for his claim upon you, nor would your father have if he knew the truth.

It is all an accident our meeting again, but it was one of God's accidents.