Turning her head away, with fluttering breath, she began to speak fast and brokenly: "I, too, have been very lonely.

I want a friend whom I might help--who would help me.

Why should you refuse?
We are not either of us quite young; what we undertook we could carry through.

Since my husband's death I--I have been playing at life.

I have always been hungry, dissatisfied, discontented.