You have my heart, my love; but if I were to prove a deserter from the cause to-day or to-morrow it would give others--Olympius--a right to point at me with scorn." "What is it then that you have undertaken ?" asked Constantine with grave anxiety.
"To crown and close my past life.

Before I can say: I am yours, wholly yours..." "Are you not mine now, to-day, at once ?" he urged.
"To day-no," she replied firmly.

"The great cause still has a claim upon me; the cause which I must renounce for your sake.

But the woman who gives only one person reason to despise her signs the death-warrant of her own dignity.

I will carry out what I have undertaken....