The best thing for both of us now is to part." "Not the best thing, but the very worst, till we perfectly understand each other." "Then perfectly understand me, that I cannot be your wife." "Lucy! do you mean that you cannot learn to love me ?" "I mean that I shall not try.

Do not persevere in this, or you will have to hate yourself for your own folly." "But I will persevere till you accept my love, or say with your hand on your heart that you cannot and will not love me." "Then I must beg you to let me go," and having so said, she paused while he walked once or twice hurriedly up and down the room.

"And Lord Lufton," she continued, "if you will leave me now, the words that you have spoken shall be as though they had never been uttered." "I care not who knows they have been uttered.

The sooner that they are known to all the world the better I shall be pleased, unless indeed--" "Think of your mother, Lord Lufton." "What can I do better than give her as a daughter the best and sweetest girl I have ever met?
When my mother really knows you, she will love you as I do.

Lucy, say one word to me of comfort." "I will say no word to you that shall injure your future comfort.