It is difficult to say--senseless--showing my ignorance, but I thought if there were perils that I should know about--that could possibly concern me, now, you would tell me, somehow--in time--" For a moment the revelation of her faith and innocence--the disclosure of how strange and lost she felt in the overwhelming catastrophe of forbidden love--how ignorant, how alone, left him without a word to utter.
She said, still looking down at his hands held between her own: "A girl who has done what I have done, loses her bearings....

I don't know yet how desperately bad I am.

However, one thing remains clear--only one--that no harm could come to--my family--even if I have given myself to you.

And when I did it, only the cowardly idea that I was wronging myself persisted.

If that is my only sin--you are worth it.
And if I committed worse--I am not repentant.