I am sorry if I have done a wrong," she said to him softly, a sound of tears in her own voice.
He turned his white, suffering face toward her, and answered with quivering lip: "It is not so much that.

It is everything combined.

I am weak, I'm sick, I'm discouraged," and Hugh could not restrain the tears.

Soon rallying, however, he continued: "You think me a snivelling coward, no doubt, but believe me, Miss Johnson, it is not my nature thus to give way.

Tears and Hugh Worthington are usually strangers to each other.