He raged about the room like a wild animal, and vented his spite on every inanimate thing that lay within reach.

His voice was strange in his own ears, as was the destructive frenzy that possessed him.

In time he grew quieter, as the physical energy of this brutal impulse spent itself; but there came no surcease of his mental disquiet.

As yet his mind grasped but dully the fact that she was to marry another, but gradually this thought in turn took possession of him.

She would be a wife in two days.