You know I have not had any one to teach me.

Will you let me try and make you happy ?" "No, Pauline," he said at last, speaking with effort.

"It is all over now, and we will never talk of it again." I was silent for many minutes--standing before him with irresolution.
"If it was right for me to marry you before," I said at last, "Why is it not right now, if I mean to do my duty ?" "No, it is no longer right, if it ever was," he answered.

"I will not take advantage of your sense of duty now, as I was going to take advantage of your necessity before.

No, you are free, and it is all at an end." "You are unjust to yourself.