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 to increasing girth. I find I can’t run as I used I get winded quickly. I’ve noticed it at tennis. Yet I don’t consider myself old. I’m still young spiritually mentally. At least, I hope I may call myself so. I still don’t laugh at me, Jenny  I still love you. The fact that I have not mentioned it lately does not mean that my affections have changed.



I was not proposing, because you have given me to understand many times  that there was no hope. If I thought that you had changed softened towards me  is there, Jenny, any chance of your reconsidering?

I’m sorry.

Doesn’t the fact that I still care for you with the same regard  after all these years, count for anything?

And I still see you as I did then. I might be Chris.

I’m ashamed to admit that I was jealous of him. I imagined that you were in love with him. But it can’t still be that.

(her face averted) : No.