"Not when I know you're coming."
"See here—if it gets too bad to bear, we must end it."
"End it?"
"Yes, Maggie. You must end it; you must give me up, when you're tired—"
"Oh no—no," she cried.
"Give me up," he repeated, "and go back to town."
"To Scale?"
"Well, yes; if it's so lonely here."
"And give you up?"
"Yes, Maggie, you must; if you go back to Scale."