What a very woman you will think I was! I, who could laugh while I ran my sword through a man's heart, could hardly restrain my tears for pity of this beautiful blind girl.
"Thank you; that will do," she said, when we came to the foot of the great staircase.

"I can now go to my rooms alone." When she reached the top she hesitated and groped for a moment; then she turned and called laughingly to me while I stood at the bottom of the steps, "I know the way perfectly well, but to go alone in any place is not like being led." "There are many ways in which one may be led, Lady Madge," I answered aloud.

Then I said to myself, "That girl will lead you to Heaven, Malcolm, if you will permit her to do so." But thirty-five years of evil life are hard to neutralize.

There is but one subtle elixir that can do it--love; and I had not thought of that magic remedy with respect to Madge.
I hurriedly fetched my hat and returned to the foot of the staircase.
Within a minute or two Madge came down stairs holding up the skirt of her gown with one hand, while she grasped the banister with the other.

As I watched her descending I was enraptured with her beauty.