And for all that people have turned their backs upon me.

You and I were old friends, Harry, and something more once--were we not?
But I jilted you, as you were man enough to tell me.
How I did respect you when you dared to speak the truth to me.

Men don't know women, or they would be harder to them." "I did not mean to be hard to you." "If you had taken me by the shoulders and shaken me, and have declared that before God you would, not allow such wickedness, I should have obeyed you.

I know I should." Harry thought of Florence, and could not bring himself to say that he wished it had been so.

"But where would you have been then, Harry?
I was wrong and false and a beast to marry that man; but I should not, therefore, have been right to marry you and ruin you.