I did not mean to offend you.

People change and mature in two years....

I suppose you are as angrily impatient of sentiment in a man as you were then." "I cannot endure it--" Her voice died out and she blushed furiously as the memory of Hamil flashed in her mind.
"Shiela," he said quietly, "now and then there's a streak of misguided decency in me.

It cropped out that winter day when I did what I did.

And I suppose it's cropping up now when I ask you, for your own sake, to get rid of me and give yourself a chance." "How ?" "Legally." "I cannot, and you know it." "You are wrong.