"I don't doubt it, though I don't see how you expected that to help you."
"I thought that, if I could have him near me always, perhaps my heart might wake within me. I do not love him, but he is the only man I ever met whose every thought I honor."
"Yet you were willing to sacrifice him!"
"I needed him."
Von Sternburg looked at her in abhorrence.
"I suppose you don't know what an abomination of selfishness you are."
She did not seem to hear him, but added, bitterly,—
"Now you have come, my hope is gone."
Von Sternburg looked across the room. Friedrich was leaning over Sydney's chair.
"It is still in the family, I should say. It merely has changed its abiding-place."