"I have had troubles. I mean to speak very freely to you now, dear. I was nearly upset,--what I suppose people call broken-hearted,--when I was assured that you certainly would never become my wife. I ought not to have allowed myself to get into such a frame of mind. I should have known that I was too old to have a chance."
"Oh, Roger,--it was not that."

"I have had troubles. I mean to speak very freely to you now, dear. I was nearly upset - what I suppose people call broken-hearted - when I was assured that you would never become my wife. I ought not to have allowed myself to get into such a frame of mind. I should have known that I was too old to have a chance."
"Oh, Roger, it was not that."
