I had determined to make him know that everything between us must be over, but I failed.

I found that I had no words at command, but that he was able to talk to me as though I were a child.

He told me that I was sick and full of phantasies, and bade me change the air.

As he spoke in this way, I could not help feeling how right he was to use me so; but I felt also that he, in his mighty superiority, could never be a fitting husband for a creature so inferior to him as I am.

Though I altogether failed to make him understand that it was so, every moment that we were together made me more fixed in my resolution." This letter from Alice to Kate, Vavasor read over and over again, though Kate's letter to himself, which was the longer one, he had thrown aside after the first glance.