Because it's no good going on. I want us to break off you to be free of me, I free of you”.
“How many times have you offered to marry me and I wasn't willing?'
"I know but I want us to break off.”
"You're a child of four!" she said in her anger. And what can I tell my mother?" she asked
“I told my mother that I was breaking it off cleanly and completely," he said
“I shan't tell them at home, she said. "It's always been the same: one long battle between us you fighting me off!'
"Not always not at first,” he argued
"Always from the very beginning always the same.
He sat in silence. His heart was hard against her. He left her at the road-end. As she went home alone, in her new dress, having to face her family at the other end, he stood without moving on the high road, filled with pain and shame.