that I am considering you as well as myself, and before myself, all the while.”
He drew his chair away from her, leaned back, and saw confidence grow in her eyes.
“I shall tell you all my heart,” he continued, “and I shall want you to tell me all your heart.”
“This love for me is something new?” she asked. “A recrudescence?”
“Yes, a recrudescence, and no.”
“I thought that for a long time I had been a habit to you,” she said.
“But I was loving you all the time.”
“Not madly.”
“No,”