I'd rather have you with me--on your own terms--than not to have you." This was a very stupid saying.

Of course I would! For if she wasn't there I should want all of her and have none of her.

But if she went along as a sort of sublimated sister--only much closer and warmer than that, really--why I should have all of her but that one thing.

And I was beginning to find that Ellador's friendship, Ellador's comradeship, Ellador's sisterly affection, Ellador's perfectly sincere love--none the less deep that she held it back on a definite line of reserve--were enough to live on very happily.
I find it quite beyond me to describe what this woman was to me.

We talk fine things about women, but in our hearts we know that they are very limited beings--most of them.