Marriage with a blind man! It might, perhaps, be possible if upon both sides there was love, and the letter from Ethne proved--did it not ?--that on both sides there _was_ love.

Besides, there were some trivial compensations which might help to make her sacrifice less burdensome.

She could still live in her own country and move in her own home.

For the Lennon house could be rebuilt and the estates cleared of their debt.
"Besides," said Calder, "there is always a possibility of a cure." "There is no such possibility," said Durrance, with a decision which quite startled his companion.

"You know that as well as I do;" and he added with a laugh, "You needn't start so guiltily.