"For if he does not love you, your temptations will not grow stronger." "And yet, perhaps--he may--" murmured Corona, feeling that it would be wrong even to conceal her faintest suspicions at such a time.
"Let there be no perhaps," answered Padre Filippo, almost sternly.

"Let it never enter your mind that he might love you.

Think that even from the worldly point there is small dignity in a woman who exhibits love for a man who has never mentioned love to her.

You have no reason to suppose you are loved save that you desire to be.

Let there be no perhaps." The monk's keen insight into character had given him an unexpected weapon in Corona's defence.