Exhausted him, and hollowed his wild eyes,
So that he never went.
And had he gone,
What Dora would have seen him come and shivered?
One whom as strong a dream—if it was a dream—
Estranged. It was of having, yet not having,
Bruce for her brave husband. For he mustn’t—
He mustn’t, she said nightly, shutting away
The vision—Bruce must never let it be.
The nurse—he mustn’t listen. Yet if he did—