"And why not now?"
He made a step towards her.—p. 552.
"Ah! child, you do not know what you are saying. What could you, a beauty and an heiress, see in me?"
"I am glad I am beautiful to you. But why should that and the other things stand between me and my happiness?"
"Your happiness, Sylvia?"
"Ah, yes! You wouldn't see it, but I always thought there was no one in the world like you. You chose Pam before me, and even then I accepted your will, but I loved you still."
"I chose Pam because she was unhappy, because there seemed no other way. It did not break my heart to give her up, though it was a blow. It does not hurt me now to hear of her as Lady Trevithick. But I dare not risk the same thing with you."
"Why?"