I will tell you how I think about it, because I have been alone a great deal and been always very much afraid, and that has made me think a great deal, and you have been very kind, for you risked your life for my poor people, and now you would risk something more than that to help me.

Will you listen while I try to tell you ?" Caius signified his assent.

He was losing all his hope.

He was thinking that when she had done talking he would go and get ready to do murder; but he listened.
"You see," she began, "the greatest happiness is love.

Love is greedy to get as well as to give.