The weak lean oft on all beside themselves,

And soon I blamed my heart that it could dare

To lure his poor, weak, crazed confession on;

And then I flush’d, and broke in passionate sobs,

To think Doretta dared to hint such things.

XXIII.

Three days my woes alternated, and then

I went to my confessor for relief.

“What, child,” he said, “love troubles you again?

The rest of us poor mortals here, we fret