Even supposing that Marie had time to go to Bayeux and implore her, would her mother give her such a sum unless she explained why she wanted it?
Could she say she had debts?
Yes, perhaps her mother would be softened by the wants of her favorite child.

Well, then! in case all other means failed, she _would_ go to Normandy.

The dreadful sight of the morning, the effects she had made to revive Nathan, the hours passed beside his pillow, his broken confession, the agony of a great soul, a vast genius stopped in its upward flight by a sordid vulgar obstacle,--all these things rushed into her memory and stimulated her love.

She went over and over her emotions, and felt her love to be deeper in these days of misery than in those of Nathan's fame and grandeur.

She felt the nobility of his last words said to her in Lady Dudley's boudoir.