Others see the results, always simpler in proportion as they are greater.

But the actors themselves alone know how hard the great and simple can seem.
Beatrice's calmness was not only of the outward kind at the present moment.

She felt that she was alone in the world, and that she had taken her life into her own hands.

Fate had lent her the clue of her happiness at last and she would hold it firmly to the end.

It would be time enough then to open the flood-gates.