"Yes, I should have known you," said Deronda, mournfully. "The outside change is not great. I should have seen at once that it was you, and that you had gone through some great sorrow."
"Don't wish now that you had never seen me; don't wish that," said Gwendolen, imploringly, while the tears gathered.
"I should despise myself for wishing it," said Deronda. "How could I know what I was wishing? We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what we imagine might have been. If I took to foolish wishing of that sort, I should wish--not that I had never seen you, but that I had been able to save you from this."

"Yes," said Deronda, mournfully. "I should have seen at once that it was you, and that you had gone through some great sorrow."
"Don't wish that you had never seen me; don't wish that," said Gwendolen, imploringly, while the tears gathered.
"I should despise myself for wishing it," said Deronda. "If I took to foolish wishing of that sort, I should wish - not that I had never seen you, but that I had been able to save you from this."
