"If, in the unchanged intercourse we shall have together--in tending Richard and Ada, and I hope in many happier scenes of life--you ever find anything in me which you can honestly think is better than it used to be, believe that it will have sprung up from to-night and that I shall owe it to you. 
"If I am ever better than I used to be," I said, "believe that it will have sprung up from tonight and that I owe it to you. 