She would learn more by some other means.

So she went on in a playful way, as a cat--not a kitten--does when it has got a mouse: 'That reason won't work, Harold.

It's quite rusty in the joints.

But never mind it! Tell me why you have come so early ?' This seemed to Harold to be a heaven-sent opening; he rushed in at once: 'Because, Stephen, I wanted to ask you to be my wife! Oh! Stephen, don't you know that I love you?
Ever since you were a little girl! When you were a little girl and I a big boy I loved you.

I have loved you ever since with all my heart, and soul, and strength.