Siward, I say to you that if you are man enough to take her, take her! And I say that of the two risks she is running to-day, the chance she might take with you is infinitely the lesser risk.

For with you, if you continue slowly losing your fight, the mental suffering only will be hers.

But if she closes this bargain with Quarrier, selling to him her body, the light will go out of her soul for ever." He leaned heavily toward Siward, stretching out his powerful arm: "You marry her; and keep open your spiritual communication through her, if that is the way it has been established, and hang on to your God that way until your body is dead! I tell you, Siward, to marry her.

I don't care how you do it; I don't care how you get her.

Take her! Yours, of the two, is the stronger character, or she would not be where she is.
Does she want what you cannot give her?
Cure that desire--it is more contemptible than the craving that shatters you! I say, let the one-eyed lead the blind.