"You're old-fashioned, Hetta. It used to be the way,--to be off with the old love before you are on with the new; but that seems to be all changed now. Such fine young fellows as there are now can be in love with two at once. That I fear is what Felix has thought;--and now he has been punished."
"You know all about it then?"
"No;--I don't know. But I think it has been so. I do know that John Crumb had threatened to do this thing, and I felt sure that sooner or later he would be as good as his word. If it has been so, who is to blame him?"

"You're old-fashioned, Hetta. It used to be the way - to be off with the old love before you are on with the new; but that seems to be all changed now. Today's fine young fellows can be in love with two at once. That I fear is what Felix has thought; and now he has been punished."
"You know all about it then?"
"I think it has been so. I do know that John Crumb had threatened this. If it has been so, who is to blame him?"
