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But at Garth's bedside
you will be confronted with the man's point of view; and I should be
failing the trust you have placed in me did I not put that before
you now.--From the man's point of view, your own mistaken action
three years ago has placed you now in an almost impossible position.
If you go to Garth with the simple offer of your love--the treasure
he asked three years ago and failed to win--he will naturally
conclude the love now given is mainly pity; and Garth Dalmain is not
the man to be content with pity, where he has thought to win love,
and failed. Nor would he allow any woman--least of all his crown of
womanhood--to tie herself to his blindness unless he were sure such
binding was her deepest joy. And how could you expect him to believe
this in face of the fact that, when he was all a woman's heart could
desire, you refused him and sent him from you?--If, on the other
hand, you explain, as no doubt you intend to do, the reason of that
refusal, he can but say one thing: 'You could not trust me to be
faithful when I had my sight.


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