It is you who have taught me that I have as much sentiment and more than other men, a heart and desires which have made life sometimes hell and sometimes paradise.

For two years I have struggled.

Life with me has been a sort of passionate compromise.

For the joy of seeing you sometimes, of listening to you and watching you, I have borne the agony of having you leave me to take your place with another man.

You don't quite know what that meant, and I am not going to tell you, but always I have hoped and hoped." "And now," she said, looking at him, "I owe you four thousand pounds and you think, perhaps, that your time has come to speak ?" He shivered as though she had struck him a blow.
"You think," he exclaimed, "that I am a man of pounds, shillings, and pence! Is it my fault that you owe me money ?" He snatched her cheques from his inner pocket and ripped them in pieces, lit a match and watched them while they smouldered away.