He raised his head and looked at her. Her eyes were glistening, her lips were trembling, never before had she seemed to him so beautiful. Feeling himself weakening he rose and turned away.
"I should never forgive myself, Fenella, if I allowed you to make this sacrifice."
"What sacrifice? Everything I want in the world is within these walls."
"Don't tempt me, Fenella. Go away, I beg of you."
"Victor, I am for you. You are for me. Do you want to rob me of the only man in the world for me?"
His heart was beating fast.
"Go away, I tell you. I cannot trust myself any longer."
But the more he commanded her to go, the more her eyes glistened with a look of triumph.
"If I am to go out of this place, you'll have to carry me out," she said, "just as you carried me across the river in the glen."
He gasped, and then flung out at her in a torrent of words.