I know you as Father Stafford, and I like that best." "As you will--for the present.

You knew how I stood.

You saw I loved you--no, I am going on--and yet felt myself bound not to tell you." "I saw nothing of the kind.

It never entered my head." "Claudia, is it possible?
Did you never think of it ?" "As nothing more than a possibility--and a very unhappy possibility." "Why unhappy ?" he asked, and his voice was very tender.
"To begin with: you could never love any one." "I have swept all that on one side.

That is over." "How can it be over?
You had sworn." "Yes; but it is over." "Dare you break your vow ?" "If I dare, who else dare question me?
Have I not counted the cost ?" "Nothing can make it right." "Why talk of that?
It is my sin and my concern." "You destroy all my esteem for you." "I ask for love, not for esteem.