It is no good shutting your eyes to that.

Look the facts in the face, and don't deceive yourself into thinking that the most difficult course is necessarily the right one." He turned from her, and sat down on the bench again, his chin in his hands, his haggard eyes fastened on her face.

He had said his last word, and she felt that when she spoke it would be her last word too.

Neither could bear much more.
"All you say sounds right, _at first_," she said, after a long silence, and as she spoke Charles's hands dropped from his face and clinched themselves together; "but I cannot go by what any one thinks unless I think so myself as well.

I can't take other people's judgments.