I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past."

"Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!

“good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be …”

“She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with somethin…”

“You're not in love with me. You never wanted to marry me, did you?' 'It was the…”

“I just think of people," she continued, "whether they seem right where they are…”