text: " "I wish you had never been any thing else " I said beginning to soften; for who could resist such a voice and such eyes? "Well I tell you I am _not_ changed--will that not satisfy you? Imagine that all that has passed since we parted here is a dream; that Verbena Lodge has no existence and that Mr Dobble is an ass! Won't you sit down beside me Edgar?" I threw myself upon the turf and she went on