Man," she said fiercely, "will you do what I tell you ?" "That depends, Mistress Emlyn.

Have I not done what you told me all my life, and for no reward ?" She moved across the chancel and sat herself down against him, pushing the image door almost to and speaking to him through the crack.
"If you have had no reward, Thomas," she said in a gentle voice, "whose fault was it?
Not mine, I think.

I loved you once when we were young, did I not?
I would have given myself to you, body and soul, would I not?
Well, who came between us and spoiled our lives ?" "The monks," groaned Thomas; "the accursed monks, who married you to Stower because he paid them." "Yes, the accursed monks.

And now our youth has gone, and love--of that sort--is behind us.

I have been another man's wife, Thomas, who might have been yours.