I remained standing, stooping, thinking only of her whom I had lost for ever.

The silence was intense.
I could hear the wind sighing in the oaks without, the logs burning softly away at my feet And so we stood until the voice of Rattray recalled me from the deck of the Lady Jermyn and my lost love's side.
"So that was all!" I turned and met a face I could not read.
"Was it not enough ?" cried I."What more would you have ?" "I expected some more-foul play!" "Ah!" I exclaimed bitterly.

"So that was all that interested you! No, there was no more foul play that I know of; and if there was, I don't care.

Nothing matters to me but one thing.

Now that you know what that is, I hope you're satisfied." It was no way to speak to one's host.