So I tried to save"; and whether it was life or soul, or both, she did not say.

She did not add that so far she had tried in vain; she did not mention the bottle of cocaine, or the dread which of late had so oppressed her.

She was careful of her lover.
Since he had to go, since he needs must be absent, she would spare him anxieties and dark thoughts which he could do nothing to dispel.

But even so, he obtained a clearer insight into the distress which she had suffered in that house, and the bravery with which she had borne it.
"Sylvia," he said, "I had no thought, no wish, that what I said should stay with you." "Yet it did," she answered, "and I was thankful.

I am thankful even now.
For though I would gladly give up all the struggle now, if I had you instead; since I have not you, I am thankful for the law.