"You're sure now?"
"Yes; your voice has told me more than your words. Even the notes of the birds soften when they...." She left the sentence uncompleted.
"It was Larssen who brought us together," he meditated.
"Larssen! He dominates us both. He seems to hold us in his hands. He's like ... like Fate. Pitiless, relentless."
"And, like Fate, to be fought to the end."
"I love you for your weakness, and yet I love you as the fighter. How contradictory it sounds!"
"Such seeming contradiction comes from elision. One leaves out the train of thought in between. Between you and me there's no need for the lengthy explanation. There's scarcely need for words at all."
"But yet I love to hear you speak. Your words heal."
"Dr Hegelmann is shrewd as well as marvellously skilful. He said to me to-day: 'I can see you are obeying orders. Fraülein needs your doctoring as much as my surgery.'"
"He's a dear man as well as a great man."