It would only be disappointment.

I hardly think that after all you ever did understand when it was that I broke down utterly and marred my fortunes for ever." "I know the day that did it." "When I accepted him ?" "Of course it was.

I know that, and so do you.

There need be no secret between us." "There need be no secret between us certainly,--and on my part there shall be none.

On my part there has been none." "Nor on mine." "There has been nothing for you to tell,--since you blurted out your short story of love that day over the waterfall, when I tried so hard to stop you." "How was I to be stopped then ?" "No; you were too simple.