"
"Let no doubt of that trouble you," I answered.
"A woman like Mary cannot treat two men as she treated you. Many a
woman may love, or think she loves many times, but there is only one
man who receives the full measure of her best. Other women, again,
have nothing to give but their best, and when they have once given
that, they have given all. Unless I have known her in vain, Mary, with
all her faults, is such a woman. Again I say, let no doubt of that
trouble you."
Brandon answered with a sad little smile from the midst of his
reverie. "It is really not so much the doubt as the certainty of it
that troubles me." Then, starting to his feet: "If I thought she had
lied to me; if I thought she could wantonly lead me on to suffer so
for her, I would kill her, so help me God."
"Do not think that. Whatever her faults, and she has enough, there is
no man on earth for her but you. Her love has come to her through a
struggle against it because it was her master. That is the strongest
and best, in fact the only, love; worth all the self-made passions in
the world.
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