You came there with but one idea, and you could not change it on the spur of the moment.

When I told you that I was engaged you could not swallow back the words that were not yet spoken.

Ah, how well I remember it.

But you are wrong, Phineas.

It was not my engagement or my marriage that has made the world a blank for me." A feeling came upon him which half-choked him, so that he could ask her no further question.