If all the wise men in the world had met to consider how Grizel could most effectively say farewell to Tommy, they could not have thought out a better sentence.

However completely he had put himself emotionally in her place with this same object, he would have been inspired by nothing quite so good.
But they were love's dying words.

He knew he could never again, though he tried, be to Grizel what he had been.

The water was spilled on the ground.

She had thought him all that was glorious in man--that was what her love had meant; and it was spilled.