"Promise!" Cherry said.
"What have you got to do with it?" Magnus asked her, looking up. "What business is it of yours, anyhow? You have washed your hands of me and my concerns."
"Magnus, you know that is not true."
"I hope it will not take more tears to do the work," he went on in the same tone. "There have been enough shed now, to clear away fifteen years of memories."
"You do not think so, or you would not say it," poor Cherry protested. "You are just trying to make me contradict you."
"Am I?" said Magnus, with a half laugh. "Well, go ahead and do it, then. Say nothing could ever make you forget me."
"Nothing ever could."
"Say you did love me with all your heart when I went away."
"Yes."
"And all the time I was gone."