Oh, you don't knew what you have done! You don't know! I thought you so noble--so great--and now--" "Now I am condemned unheard." "Unheard?
Do you think words could change anything?
There is only one thing I wish for now--never, never to see you again as long as either of us live!" With each word her voice rose, and on the last it broke with an excited sob.
While she had been speaking the Prophet's face had become very pale.

He turned to her now with a manner that was preternaturally quiet.
"Very well!" he said.

"I understand! But there is no need for you to trouble.

All our arrangements are made--have been made for months.

We attend the Gathering to-night; and afterwards, when Hellier Crescent is quiet, we go--as unobtrusively as we came.