Listen! Do you know what I brought you here for?
why I left my--this house and dragged you out of your hotel?
Well, it was to tell you that you must leave me, leave HERE--go out of this house and out of this town at once, to-night! And never look on it or me again! There! you have said we must end this now.

It is ended, as only it could and ever would end.

And if you open that door except to go, or if you attempt to--to touch me again, I'll do something desperate.

There!" She threw him off again and stepped back, strangely beautiful in the loosened shackles of her long repressed human emotion.

It was as if the passion-rent robes of the priestess had laid bare the flesh of the woman dazzling and victorious.