"You have no business to change. Say you'll do a thing, and do it."
The spectacled face had assumed a rigid cast which Gwynneth knew well, and for which Nurse Ella had just the chin.
"But supposing you never really loved——"
"Love is an inexact term; it's not always easy to tell when it applies to your feelings, and when it does not. But when you say you'll marry anybody, that's a definite promise, and nothing in the world should make you break it, unless it's been extracted under false pretences. We are both very positive, aren't we?" and Nurse Ella smiled. "I wonder why you are, Gwynneth?"
"Because," said the girl, impelled to frankness, yet hanging her head, "as a matter of fact, I've been more or less engaged myself."
"And you got out of it?"
"I broke it off."
"Simply because you had changed?"
"No—it was a mistake from the beginning. I had never really cared. That was my shame."