“But have we ever done with the past?” she said, with her eyes upon him. “If we think so isn’t that a stupidity on our part?”
“You’re talking like a parson!”
“Even a parson may hit upon a truth now and then.”
“It depends upon oneself. I say I have done with the past.”
“And yet you’re afraid to read letters from England.”
“I’m not.”
“And you never go to England.”
“There’s nothing to prevent me from going to England.”
“Except your own feelings about things.”
“One gets over feelings with the help of Time. I’m not such a sensitive fool as I used to be. Life has knocked all that sort of rot out of me.”