You talk about Dolly Haight; but it is not Dolly Haight at all who has changed my affection for you.
I will be just as frank as I can with you, Van.

I may learn really to love Dolly Haight; I don't know, I think perhaps I will, but it isn't that I care for him _just_ because I don't care for you.

Can't you see, it's just as if I had never met you.

You know it's very hard for me to say this to you, Van, and I suppose it's all mixed up, but I can't help it.

You don't know how sorry I am, because we have been such old friends--because I really did care for you as a friend; it's a proof of it, that there is no other man in the world I could talk to like this.