“But why on earth not? What has got into you?” “Rowena – dear God, do you take me for a man of steel? Or not as a man at all? Don’t you realize what it means to see you every day, to be constantly with you, knowing that you are promised to my uncle and that I can never possess you?” “I’m sorry, Mark. I hadn’t thought – that is, I thought you had forgotten all about your infatuation for me.”
