It was not a question that stood in need of any answer.
"Why do you wish to enter on this semblance of marriage ?" "Because there is only one point on which I have a conscience.

I have told you so." "Then why not marry me ?" "Because if once you have me you would hold me fast.

I shall never be free again." She drew a long, low breath.
"What have you done with the ring I gave you ?" he said.
"Sometimes I wear it; then I take it off and wish to throw it into the fire; the next day I put it on again, and sometimes I kiss it." "So you do love me a little ?" "If you were not something more to me than any other man in the world, do you think--" She paused.

"I love you when I see you; but when you are away from me I hate you." "Then I fear I must be singularly invisible at the present moment," he said.

"Possibly if you were to look less fixedly into the fire you might perceive me." He moved his chair slightly, so as to come between her and the firelight.