He was coming to understand something or other about his own desires hitherto undefined by him, the source of his difficulty with Katharine.

The wish to hurt her, which had urged him to begin, had completely left him, and he felt that it was only Katharine now who could help him to be sure.

He must take his time.

There were so many things that he could not say without the greatest difficulty--that name, for example, Cassandra.

Nor could he move his eyes from a certain spot, a fiery glen surrounded by high mountains, in the heart of the coals.