"You won't—you can't marry her?"
"What?" said Paul, stopping short.
"You do not love her."
"I loved her once—I shall learn to love her again."
"You will be wretched, miserable—and so will she, now that you know the truth. I would have spared you. I meant to give my life to spare you—oh, Paul, you know I did," she wept passionately—"but now, now when you yourself would not let me do it——"
"Leo?"
She wept on.
"Try to hear me. Try to understand me. Leo, there is a greater thing than Love."
"No, no, there is not—there is not."
"There is." He drew a breath, a long, deep breath. "There is Honour."