It is so with me.

I am not given to doubts or to asking advice from any man.
But the time has come when I have the one and need of the other." He paused, knocked out some ashes from his pipe, and relighted it.
"I have loved two women in my life, Guy," he went on slowly.

"The first was your mother." I started a little, but I still held my peace.

He looked hard into the ashes of the fire, and continued.
"I tried my best," he said, "to be a friend to her after her marriage, and I hope, I think, that I succeeded.

I even did my best to fight that woman's influence with your father at Gibraltar.