I am Love! I bring with me fever and passion: wild longing, maddening desire; restless craving and seeking.

Many a long day ere this I heard you calling out for me; and behold now I am come." Was Pen frightened at the summons?
Not he.

He did not know what was coming: it was all wild pleasure and delight as yet.

And as, when three years previously, and on entering the fifth form at the Cistercians, his father had made him a present of a gold watch which the boy took from under his pillow and examined on the instant of waking: for ever rubbing and polishing it up in private and retiring into corners to listen to its ticking: so the young man exulted over his new delight; felt in his waistcoat pocket to see that it was safe; wound it up at nights, and at the very first moment of waking hugged it and looked at it .-- By the way, that first watch of Pen's was a showy ill-manufactured piece: it never went well from the beginning, and was always getting out of order.

And after putting it aside into a drawer and forgetting it for some time, he swapped it finally away for a more useful time-keeper.
Pen felt himself to be ever so many years older since yesterday.