"I cannot tell you that either."
"I have endeavoured to be honest; but sometimes it is so difficult. One wants sometimes to tell the whole truth, but it won't come out. I am engaged to her now."
"You are engaged to her!"
"And two days since I was as free as ever."
"Then I may congratulate you."
"No, no. It makes me miserable. I do not love her. There is one other person that I care for, and I never can care for any one else. There is one woman that I love, and I never really loved any one else."
"That is very sad, Captain De Baron."
"Is it not? I can never marry Miss Mildmay."
"And yet you have promised?"
"I have promised under certain circumstances which can never, never come about."