"Content" has both a positive and negative meaning or antecedent condition.

It implies an absence of disturbing conditions as well as of wants; also it implies something positive which has been won or achieved, or which has accrued.

In our state of mind--for though it may be presumption on my part, I am satisfied that our ideas were mutual--it meant that we had reached an understanding whence all that might come must be for good.

God grant that it may be so! As we sat silent, looking into each other's eyes, and whilst the stars in hers were now full of latent fire, perhaps from the reflection of the flames, she suddenly sprang to her feet, instinctively drawing the horrible shroud round her as she rose to her full height in a voice full of lingering emotion, as of one who is acting under spiritual compulsion rather than personal will, she said in a whisper: "I must go at once.

I feel the morning drawing nigh.