And however strong feelings may be at moments--absence and fresh interests dull them.

To banish her memory became a good deal easier as time went on, and even the idea to divorce her if she wished did not seem too hard.
But now he had seen her again--and every spell she had cast over him on that June night was renewed ten-fold.

She was everything he could desire--she was beautiful and sweet and witty, with a charm which only complete independence and indifference can ever give a woman in the eyes of such a man as he.

This he did not reason out--thinking himself a very ordinary person--in fact, never thinking of himself at all or what his temperament was affected by.

He did not realize either that the very fact of Sabine's being now out of his reach made her appear the one and only thing he cared to possess.