“Yes, for some things I do. I came full of plans, and I have learned and worked. Now I am going to be married.”
“You have, then, been successful?”
“I have learned that life is cruel.”
“To you?”
“They, my friends, believed evil of me. Did you hear it?”
“I heard it.”
“And believed?”
“Don’t ask me such questions,” he replied. “You know I could not believe them. I think you—well, I think you the purest, best woman in the world.”
“That is not what you were going to say. You began and you changed it.”
“You were cruel once, but you are the one woman—for me.”