Yet Chillon left the decision to her, specified his excuses.
And Henrietta and Owain, Lady Arpington, Gower Woodseer, all the world--Carinthia shuddered at the world's blank eye on what it directs for the acquiescence of the woman.

That shred of herself she would become, she felt herself becoming it when the view of her career beside her brother waned.

The dead Rebecca living in her heart was the only soul among her friends whose voice was her own against the world's.
But there came a turn where she and Rebecca separated.

Rebecca's insurgent wishes taking shape of prophecy, robbed her of her friend Owain, to present her an impossible object, that her mind could not compass or figure.

She bade Rebecca rest and let her keep the fancy of Owain as her good ghost of a sun in the mist of a frosty morning; sweeter to her than an image of love, though it were the very love, the love of maidens' dreams, bursting the bud of romance, issuing its flower.