All the pent-up feelings in both their souls let loose at last.
It was a moment which caused time and place and all other things to be forgotten in a glory as great as though eternity had come.
"My darling, my darling!" he murmured, kissing her hair and brow and eyelids.

"Oh! the hideous cruelty that it is all too late and this must be good-bye." But Sabine clung to him half sobbing, telling him she could not bear it; he must not leave her now.

And so they stood clasped together, trembling with love and misery.
"Darling," at last he besought her, while he unclasped her tender hands from round his neck.

"Darling, do not tempt me--it is frightful pain, but I must keep my word.

You had reason once to think that I was an uncontrollable brute, but you shall not be able to do so any more.