She bent her head, and with shining, wet eyes looked from under her brows at Dolly, a thin little pitiful figure in her patched dressing jacket and nightcap, shaking all over with emotion.

"It is only those two creatures that I love, and one excludes the other.

I can't have them together, and that's the only thing I want.

And since I can't have that, I don't care about the rest.