Yes, I have!" He saw her in another second of lightning, a sudden, bright one.

Her back was turned to him; she had taken a few startled steps from him.
"Ah," he cried, "you are glad enough, now, to see me go! I knew it.

I wanted to spare myself that.

I tried not to be a hysterical fool in your eyes." He turned aside and his head fell on his breast.

"God help me," he said, "what will this place be to me now ?" The breeze had risen; it gathered force; it was a chill wind, and there rose a wailing on the prairie.