I was so very glad to hear all that you have told me about your work and your journeys.

I was still more glad because of the satisfaction with which you told it.

For it seemed to me, as I listened and as I watched, that you had found the one true straight channel along which your life could run swift and smoothly and unharassed.

And so few do that--so very few!" And she wrung her hands and cried, "And now you spoil it all." Durrance suddenly faced her.

He ceased from argument; he cried in a voice of passion:-- "I am for you, Ethne! There's the true straight channel, and upon my word I believe you are for me.