Had they revealed it in its most intimate detail, they could not have conveyed a better understanding of it than through the words uttered in this murky prison corridor.

It was plain to Britz that Beard and Ward had been suitors for the girl's hand; that Ward's suit was successful through the favor which he found in the eyes of the girl's father.

But now, when the man with whom she really was in love was in desperate straits, that love could no longer be diverted from its true channel, and, like an irresistible current that sweeps everything before it, it had carried her to the side of her endangered lover.
Materialists may find it difficult to distinguish between love and passion--may deny to their hearts' content the existence of any line of demarcation between them.

But the true lover has no doubt on the subject.

Love distinguishes itself from passion, through sacrifice.
Passion is invariably selfish.