Don't you hear what they say ?--they offer the very thing you asked of me." "Don't talk of it--don't think of it; forget it!" She spoke in hushed supplication, and while the alarm deepened in her eyes she disengaged one of her hands and passed an arm round him to support him better, to help him to sink into a seat.
He let himself go, resting on her; he dropped upon the bench and she fell on her knees beside him, his own arm round her shoulder.

So he remained an instant, staring up at his shrine.

"They say there's a gap in the array--they say it's not full, complete.

Just one more," he went on, softly--"isn't that what you wanted?
Yes, one more, one more." "Ah no more--no more!" she wailed, as with a quick new horror of it, under her breath.
"Yes, one more," he repeated, simply; "just one!" And with this his head dropped on her shoulder; she felt that in his weakness he had fainted.
But alone with him in the dusky church a great dread was on her of what might still happen, for his face had the whiteness of death.
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