"If you could only love me a little in return!"
"I don't know how to love you except the way I am doing—"
"There is a more vital emotion—"
"It seems impossible that I could care for you more deeply than I do."
"If you could only respond with a little tenderness—"
"I do respond—as well as I know how," she said piteously.
He drew her nearer and touched her cheek with his lips:
"I know, dear. I don't mean to complain."
"Oh, Clive! I have let you fall in love with me and it is making you miserable! And now it's making me miserable, too, because you are disappointed in me."