You would take nothing back," he said at length.

"But there is my point of view." Ethne looked at him with apprehension.
"Yes ?" she replied, and she strove to speak with unconcern.

"Will you tell me it ?" Durrance assented, and began in the deliberate voice of a man who has thought out his subject, knows it by heart, and has decided, moreover, the order of words by which it will be most lucidly developed.
"I know what blindness means to all men--a growing, narrowing egotism unless one is perpetually on one's guard.

And will one be perpetually on one's guard?
Blindness means that to all men," he repeated emphatically.
"But it must mean more to me, who am deprived of every occupation.

If I were a writer, I could still dictate.