I did not dare.

_Then_ I was too poor a man, too insignificant to dare to lay bare to you the thoughts, the fears, the hopes that were killing me." "Nothing!" echoes she.

"Have you then forgotten ?" She raises her head, and casts at him a swift, but burning glance.

_"Was_ it nothing?
You came to plead your friend's cause, I think.

Surely that was something?
I thought it a great deal.