It is so much harder for you than for them." She lifted her head.

There was still something of the look of a scared child in her face.
"Don't imagine me better than I am," she begged.

"I am not really different from any other woman, only it is the first time this sort of thing has ever come into my life." "I know.

You see," he went on, a little wistfully, "you have not taken me, as yet, very far into your confidence, Philippa.

You know that I love you as a man loves only once.