“I cannot.”
“But why?”
“You know I have no affection for you.”
“But you would get to feel that in time, perhaps—as soon as you really could forgive me?”
“Never!”
“Why so positive?”
“I love somebody else.”
The words seemed to astonish him.
“You do?” he cried. “Somebody else? But has not a sense of what is morally right and proper any weight with you?”
“No, no, no—don’t say that!”