You thought that I was fond of you; you knew I cared for you--but you didn't think I might be--in love with you.
But you thought that I might marry you without being in love with you because you did believe I had tried to marry your brother, and--" "Mary, I only knew--for the first time--that you--that you were--" "Were desperately poor," she said.

"You can't even say that! Bibbs, it was true: I did try to make Jim want to marry me.

I did!" And she sank down into the chair, weeping bitterly again.

Bibbs was agonized.
"Mary," he groaned, "I didn't know you COULD cry!" "Listen," she said.

"Listen till I get through--I want you to understand.