"You know that, Phineas." "It was your marriage," he said, gruffly.
"It was, and has been, and still will be my strong, unalterable, unquenchable love for you.

How could I behave to that other man with even seeming tenderness when my mind was always thinking of you, when my heart was always fixed upon you?
But you have been so simple, so little given to vanity,"-- she leaned upon his arm as she spoke,--"so pure and so manly, that you have not believed this, even when I told you.

Has it not been so ?" "I do not wish to believe it now." "But you do believe it?
You must and shall believe it.

I ask for nothing in return.

As my God is my judge, if I thought it possible that your heart should be to me as mine is to you, I could have put a pistol to my ear sooner than speak as I have spoken." Though she paused for some word from him he could not utter a word.