Great Danes are exceedingly desirable property, you know....

Did you wish to be forgiven for anything?
What on earth are you doing with that horrid fistful of muck ?" "I only want to put some mud on that wound, if you'll let me.

It's good for hornet stings----" She laughed and backed away: "Do you believe there is any virtue in mud, Delancy ?--good, deep mire--when one is bruised and sore and lonely and desperate?
Oh, don't try to understand--what a funny, confused, stupid way you have of looking at me! I remember you used to look at me that way sometimes--oh, long ago--before I was married, I think." The heavy colour which surged so readily to his temples began to amuse her; she leaned back against the bridge rail and contemplated him with smiling disdain.
"Do you know," she said, "years ago, I had a slight, healthy suspicion that you were on the verge of falling in love with me." He tried to smile, but the colour died out in his face.
"Yes, I was on the verge," he contrived to answer.
"Why didn't you fall over ?" "I suppose it was because you married Jack Dysart," he said simply.
"Was _that_ all ?" "All ?" He thought he perceived the jest, and managed to laugh again.
"Really, I am perfectly serious," repeated Rosalie.

"Was that all that prevented you from falling in love with me--because I was married ?" "I think so," he said.

"Wasn't it reason enough ?" "I didn't know it was enough for a man.