I was born passionate and changeful just as you were born passionate and steady." "Don't, Molly, if you only knew how you hurt me when you talk like that.
You've flown into my heart like a little blue bird into a cage, and there you'll beat and flutter, but you can't get out.

Some day you'll rest there quiet, sweetheart." "Don't call it a cage, and never, never try to hold me or I'll fly away." "Yet you love me, Molly ?" She threw her arms about his neck, rising on tiptoe while she kissed his mouth.

"I love you--and yet in my heart I don't really believe in love," she answered.

"I shouldn't be surprised to wake up any morning and find that I had dreamed it." "It makes me want to curse those that put your mind out of joint when you were little and innocent." "I don't believe I was ever little and innocent--I was born out of bitterness." "Then I'll cure you, darling.

I'll love you so hard that you'll forget all the terrible things you knew as a child." She shook her head, gaily and yet with a touch of scorn for his assurance.