A vague idea of rehabilitation had entered the plan of their life.

That it was so vague as to elude the support of argument made it only the stronger.

It had presented itself to them at the instant when the woman's instinct of devotion and the man's instinct of activity receive from the strongest of illusions their most powerful impulse.

The very prohibition imposed the necessity of success.

It was as if they had been morally bound to make good their vigorous view of life against the unnatural error of weariness and despair.