There was reproach indeed, but it came with an expression of passion of which she had not known him to be capable.
He stood before her telling her that she had broken his heart, and, as he told her so, his words were half choked by sobs.

He reminded her of her promises, declaring that his own to her had ever remained in full force.

And he told her that she, she to whom he had looked for all his joy, had become a curse to him and a blight upon his life.

There were thoughts and feelings too beyond all these that crowded themselves upon her heart and upon her mind at the moment.
It had been possible for her to accept the hand of Adrian Urmand because she had become assured that George Voss no longer regarded her as his promised bride.

She would have stood firm against her uncle and her aunt, she would have stood against all the world, had it not seemed to her that the evidence of her cousin's indifference was complete.