Upon those who are free from their youth there is a great tax levied.

Nature has decreed that they should feel something which they call love.

They marry, and in this small world of ours they give a hostage as heavy as a millstone of their chances of happiness.

For it is only in later life, when a man has knowledge as well as passion, when unless he is fortunate it is too late, that he can know what love is." She moved a little uneasily.

She felt that something was coming which she desired to avoid, some confidence, something from which she must escape.