"You know, surely you know, how I love you, Commissioner Sahib, from morning till night and round till morning again, always and above all, ever since I can first remember.

But this is different to anything that has ever happened to me before, and it wouldn't be right not to speak about it.

It would be there all the time, and it would creep in between us--between you and me--and interfere in all my thinking about you." "It may very well do that in any case, my dear," he said.
"No--no," Damaris answered hotly, "not if I do right now--right by both.
For you must not entertain wrong ideas about him--about Captain Faircloth I mean.

You must not suppose he said a word about my having what might, or ought to be his.

He couldn't do so.