If his heart has come to me I cannot help it--for the rest, no.

So what is left to me?
His spirit and all the future when the flesh is done with; that is heritage enough.

How the philosopher who argued about the love of men and women would laugh and mock if he could see these words.

Supposing that he could say, 'Stella Fregelius, I am in a position to offer you a choice.

Will you have this man for your husband and live out your natural lives upon the strict stipulation that your relationship ends absolutely and forever with your last breaths?
Or will you let him go to the other woman for their natural lives with the prospect of that heritage which your imagination has fashioned; that dim eternity of double joy where, hand in hand, twain and yet one, you will fulfil the secret purpose of your destinies ?' "What should I answer then?
"Before Heaven I would answer that I would not sell myself to the devil of the flesh and of this present world.