Philippa Gregory Quote

I cannot know what the future will bring us, he says in a rapid undertone. I cannot know where you will be given in marriage, nor what life might hold for me. But I can't let you go without telling you--without telling you at least once--that I love you. I snatch a breath at the words. Woodville-- I can offer you nothing; I am next to nothing, and you are the greatest lady in France. But I wanted you to know, I love you and I want you, and I have done since the day I first saw you. I should-- I have to tell you, you have to know. I have loved you honorably as a knight should do his lady, and I have loved you passionately as a man might a woman; and now, before I leave you, I want to tell you that I love you, I love you-- He breaks off and looks at me desperately. I had to tell you, he repeats.