"It is not my will that we ever part. Nor shall we, wedded or not. Yet we must wait our wedded happiness."
"You need not, Carus."
"I know it and I wait."
"So then—so then you hold me innocent—you raise me back to the high place I fell from, blinded by love——"
"You never fell from your high place, Elsin."
"But my unpardonable sin——"
"What sin? The evil lies with him."
"Yet, wedded, I sought you—I loved you—I love you now—I offer my amends to you—myself to do with as it pleases you."
"Sweetheart, you could not stir from the high place where you reign enthroned though I and Satan leagued to pull you down. I, not you, owe the amends; I, not you, await your pleasure. Yours to command, mine to obey. Now, tell me, love, where my honor lies?"
"Linked with mine, Carus."