That knowledge didn't change your love for him a particle.

I think the Bird Woman loved him more.

Why should you two have all the fine perceptions there are?
Can't I see how brave, trustworthy, and splendid he is?
Can't I see how his soul vibrates with his music, his love of beautiful things and the pangs of loneliness and heart hunger?
Must you two love him with all the love there is, and I give him none?
My father is never unreasonable.

He won't expect me not to love Freckles, or not to tell him so, if the telling will save him." She darted past McLean into Freckles' room, closed the door, and turned the key..