Perhaps she too had kept her memory of him as something apart; but if she had, it must have been like a relic in a small dim chapel, where there was not time to pray every day.
“Do you know—I hardly remembered you?”
“Hardly remembered me?”
“I mean: how shall I explain? I—it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.”
"(...) For a long time I've hoped this chance would come: that I might tell you how you've helped me, what you've made of me—"
"And what do you make out that you've made of me?"
"Of you?"
"Yes: for I'm of your making much more than you ever were of mine. I'm the man who married one woman because another one told him to."