I loved Thyrza even then with more intensity of pure feeling than I had ever before known, and now I love her with a love which lasts a lifetime.

You have no right to pronounce so confidently upon her fitness or unfitness to mate with me; your knowledge of her is very slight.

I know her as a woman can only be known by the man who loves her.

You cannot judge for me in this case; no one could judge for me.

I shall act on my conviction; it is poor waste of life to do otherwise.' A pause, whereof the seconds were to one ear beaten out in heart-throbs.