Your wife is not here.

Molly is dead!' "Then, in one second, it seemed that all the years of overwork, of mental strain and bodily deprivation rose up and took their due.

I tried to speak, stuttered foolishly, and fell like dead over the door-sill of the house I was never to enter.
"You know the rest, for you saved me.

When I struggled back to life, without the will to live, you shamed and stung me into effort.

You brought the new master-influence into my life, taught me that the old ambition, the old work-ardour was not dead.