I feel that there is no such thing in the world as the love _I_ want--and marriage without it would be worse than any imagined hell.

So I shall not marry." Lady Kingswood's face expressed a mild tolerance.
"You say that just now"-- she said--"But I think you will alter your mind some day! You would not like to be quite alone always--not even in the Palazzo d'Oro." "YOU are quite alone ?" "Ah, but I am an old woman, my dear! I have lived my day!" "That's not true," said Morgana, decisively--"You have not 'lived your day' since you are living NOW! And if you are old, that is just a reason why you should NOT be alone.

But you ARE.

Your husband is dead, and your daughter has other ties.

So even marriage left you high and dry on the rocks as it were till my little boat came along and took you off them!" "A very welcome little boat!" said Lady Kingswood, with feeling--"A rescue in the nick of time!" "Never mind that!" and Morgan waved her pretty hand expressively--"My point is that marriage--just marriage--has not done much for you.