There has not been a
moment since you told me of your love for this rich young lady in
which I would not have helped you had help been in my power.
Whomever I may have harmed, I have never harmed you.'
'Am I not as clear from blame towards you?'
'No, Frank. You have done me the terrible evil of ceasing to love
me.'
'It was at your own bidding.'
'Certainly! But if I were to bid you to cut your throat, would
you do it?'
'Was it not you who decided that we could not wait for each
other?'
'And should it not have been for you to decide that you would
wait?'
'You also would have married.'
'It almost angers me that you should not see the difference. A
girl unless she marries becomes nothing, as I have become nothing
now. A man does not want a pillar on which to lean. A man, when he
has done as you have done with me, and made a girl's heart all his
own, even though his own heart had been flexible and plastic as
yours is, should have been true to her, at least for a while. Did
it never occur to you that you owed something to me?'
'I have always owed you very much.
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