CASTING THE BAIT Loving and perishing: these have tallied from eternity.

Love and death walk hand-in-hand.

The will to love means also to be ready for death.
Gabrielle Heyburn recognised this truth.

She had the will to love, and she had the resolve to perish--perish by her own hand--rather than allow her secret to be exposed.

Those who knew her--a young, athletic, merry-faced, open-air girl on the verge of budding womanhood, so true-hearted, frank, and free--little dreamed of the terrible nature of that secret within her young heart.
She held aloof from her lover as much as she dared.