But would it not be right that it should be told? "Do you know I almost feel that he is like a father to me," said Hetta, leaning on her lover's shoulder.
Paul thought it over for a few minutes, and then said that he would himself write to Roger. "Hetta, do you know, I doubt whether he will ever speak to me again."
"I cannot believe that."
"There is a sternness about him which it is very hard to understand. He has taught himself to think that as I met you in his house, and as he then wished you to be his wife, I should not have ventured to love you. How could I have known?"
"That would be unreasonable."

 be told?
"Do you know, I almost feel that he is like a father to me," said Hetta, leaning on her lover's shoulder.
Paul thought it over, and then said that he would himself write to Roger. "Hetta, I doubt whether he will ever speak to me again."
"I cannot believe that."
"There is a sternness about him. He has taught himself to think that as I met you in his house, and as he wished you to be his wife, I should not have ventured to love you. 