We are sib; give me what is mine.
I am yours--and I hold to my troth.

Come, beloved, let us go together." A sigh broke from her lips, for she saw that, bad as he was, there was a moment's truth in his words.

"Go while you can," she said.

"You are nothing to me." For an instant he hesitated, then, with a muttered oath, sprang out into the bracken, and was presently lost among the trees.
For a long time she sat in the doorway, and again and again her eyes filled with tears.

She felt a cloud of trouble closing in upon her.