Tears were in her eyes and in her voice, for there was to her a passion of pathos in those words of his.

"You want me, and you know that it is only my soul that shall be lost if I give myself to you.

God has decreed that only the soul of the woman pays the penalty of the man's longing for her." "You soul shall be saved, not lost," said he.

"At present it is your soul that is in peril, when you give your sweetness to the man whom you have ceased to love--ah! whom you never loved.

You will save your soul with me." "I shall lose it for all eternity," said she.