I do pity you.

I do, I do.

If we could help each other--but we cannot, and there is no use longing for it.

I sometimes fear that your attitude is the right one, and that it is best that we should part and meet no more." The proposition to part and meet no more was good in theory, but Max found that the suggestion to make a fact of it frightened him.
"Let us not speak of that now," he said.

"The parting will come soon enough.