9/15 One thing with your lips and another thing with your eyes--and ways of doing. You tell me that I, must go, but you make it possible for me to stay. For God's sake let it be one or the other." "I am so sorry. We could be friends of a sort, I think, but I can't marry you." "You have never told me why." "Shall I tell you truly, literally--brutally ?" "Of course!" "Then it is not only because I don't love you--that there is not for me the common temptation to enter a form of bondage which, as I see it, is hateful. That is enough, but it is not all; it is not even the principal thing. |