Chapter 37
An Old Man's Complaint "Have you been thinking again of what I was saying to you, Bell?" Bernard said to his cousin one morning. "Thinking of it, Bernard? Why should I think more of it? I had hoped that you had forgotten it yourself." "No," he said; "I am not so easy-hearted as that. I cannot look on such a thing as I would the purchase of a horse, which I could give up without sorrow if I found that the animal was too costly for my purse. I did not tell you that I loved you till I was sure of myself, and having made myself sure I cannot change at all." "And yet you would have me change." "Yes, of course I would. If your heart be free now, it must of course be changed before you come to love any man. Such change as that is to be looked for. But when you have loved, then it wil
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