I was loving you with heart and soul and brain and eyes when you went away and left me." "Cousin Godfrey!" shrieked Letty, "don't you know I belong to Tom ?" And she dropped like one lifeless on the grass at his feet.
Godfrey felt as if suddenly damned; and his hell was death.

He stood gazing on the white face.

The world, heaven, God, and nature were dead, and that was the soul of it all, dead before him! But such death is never born of love.

This agony was but the fog of disappointed self-love; and out of it suddenly rose what seemed a new power to live, but one from a lower world: it was all a wretched dream, out of which he was no more to issue, in which he must go on for ever, dreaming, yet acting as one wide awake! Mechanically he stooped and lifted the death-defying lover in his arms, and carried her to the house.

He felt no thrill as he held the treasure to his heart.