I really almost thought he cared for me.

And when I was so ill last Fall, don't you remember how often he used to come up to my room ?" "I remember--yes.

It is all very strange." "And some days early in the winter, when I could scarcely speak at table, I was so unhappy, he would look at me so long, and seem to think.
And then would be very kind and gentle afterward, and do something to show he liked me--give me money, you know, as he always did." "Tell me, Pauline: did he ever ask you anything about last summer, or did you ever tell him ?" "No, Richard, I could never have spoken to him about it; and he never asked me.

But I know he saw that I was not happy." "Pauline," said Richard, after a pause, and as if forcing himself to speak, "there is no use in disguising from you what your position is: you know it yourself, enough of it, at least, to make you understand why I speak now.

I don't know of any way out of it, but one; and I feel as if it were ungenerous to press that on you now, and, Heaven knows, I would not do it if I could think of anything else to offer to you.