Margaret dear, if I stayed with you now--if we married--the Pursuit would begin again.

God would hold me at last--and then one day you would find that I had gone away--I would have been driven--there would be terror for both of us then." She slipped on to her knees and caught his hands.
"This is all unreal--utterly unreal.

But our love for each other, that is the only thing that can matter for either of us.

You have lived in your thoughts these weeks, imagined things, but think of what you do if you leave me.

You are all I have--you have become my world--I can't live, I can't live, Olva, without you." "I must go.