When you know all, you can cry out against me with the rest.

Remember," she added distinctly with proud bitterness, "I give you full permission." She turned away and moved across the room; she stopped before the dying fire, standing above it, and looking down into it.

I saw her dark figure between me and the fading glare, her head lowered on her breast, her arms hanging dejectedly by her side.

She mused there a few minutes, and then went noiselessly out of the room..