“Not in the short run; we haven’t tried the long run yet, and you are afraid to do that?”
“I suppose I am. I am afraid of something; I think that I am afraid of myself.”
“If you are not afraid of me, I do not care what you are afraid of.”
“I am not afraid of you—now.”
“Then if you do—reject me, it is because you are not satisfied with your heart toward me?”
“Yes, that will be the reason,” she said slowly.
“And none other?”
“There is no reason in yourself; now that you have seen how you were wrong; the reason will all be in myself.”
“Are you coming any nearer to an understanding with yourself?” he asked quietly.
He had spoken in this same tone to a patient, a little child, not two hours since.