I tried it time and again, but the smell of its darkness drove me out; every foot of its ragged walls had left its mark on me, and my heart was torn and gouged and shivered worse than its seams and ledges.

I could have sold it, but there was no place for me to go, and what did I want with money?
I was shy of the world, like a crippled child that dreads the daylight, and I shrank from going out where people might see my scars; so I stayed there by myself nursing the hurt that never got any better.

You see, I'd been raised among the hills and rocks, and I was like them in a way; I couldn't grow and alter and heal up.
"From time to time I heard of her, but the news, instead of gladdening me, as it would have gladdened some men, wrung out what bits of suffering were left in me, and I fairly ached for her.

Nobody comes to see clearer than a woman deceived, so it didn't take her long to find out the kind of man Bennett was.

He wasn't like her at all, and the reason he had courted her so hotly was just that he had had everything that rightly belongs to a man like him, and had sickened of it, so he wanted her because she was clean and pure and different; and realizing that he couldn't get her any other way, he had married her.