"
"Jack, I have always been frank to you because I like you. Do you
suppose it will take me five years to find out what my heart says to
any man? No. Had I loved you I should not have asked you to wait; I
should have said yes. I do not love you in the way you wish. Indeed,
I like you better than any man I know, but that is all I can offer you.
I should be unkind if I held out any false hopes. I have often asked
myself why I do not love you, but there is something lacking in you,
something I cannot define. Some other woman will find what I have
failed to find in you to love."
I was twisting my gloves out of all recognition. There was a singing
in my ears which did not come from the stage.
"Look at it as I do, Jack. There is a man in this world whom I shall
love, and who will love me. We may never meet. Then he shall be an
ideal to me, and I to him. You believe you love me, but the love you
offer is not complete."
"Not complete?" I echoed.
"No. It would be if I returned it. Do you understand? There is in
this world a woman you will truly love and who will return your love in
its fulness.
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