“What I meant was that you never have been able to forgive any of my mistakes.”
“Your sins, you mean.”
“Believing evil of me, you say sins. But I have been lied about, Curtis, cruelly lied about; I’m not perfect, any more than you are, but I’m not as bad as you think. You said a while ago, in one of your dramatic ways, that if I could only have been true to you, and we could have lived happily together! If I went wrong once, is that any reason why I couldn’t be true to you now?”
His hand shook on the rein.
“I don’t believe you could be true to any man or any thing.”
“Now is that quite fair?”
“Perhaps it is not quite fair, but you know I have had good cause for saying it.”
“Judge me by the present, not by the past. Do as you would be done by. That’s been one of the tenets of your creed, I believe.”
“Judge you by the present?”
“Yes; give me a chance to show that I can be true to you.”