No man can say to a woman what I have said to you, and be quite forgiven.

You will never think of me again as you would have done if I had not spoken.

I knew that before I did it.

As for me, I can only go on with my old life.

It is not gay, and will not be the gayer for our talk to-night." Madeleine relented a little: "Friendships like ours are not so easily broken," she said.