You know how gladly, with what gratitude, I would have answered you, 'Yes, let the marriage go on,' if I dared.

If I dared! But I think--don't you ?--that a great trouble rather clears one's wits.

I used to lie awake at Cairo and think; and the unimportant trivial considerations gradually dropped away; and a few straight and simple truths stood out rather vividly.
One felt that one had to cling to them and with all one's might, because nothing else was left." "Yes, that I do understand," Ethne replied in a low voice.

She had gone through just such an experience herself.

It might have been herself, and not Durrance, who was speaking.