“Hilary, oh, my dear! No, no; I cannot bear it. Go away, leave me. I shall have your blood upon my hands, and then I think I shall go mad.”
He caught her and held her.
“Judith, I cannot leave you. So I must kill Severn.”
“But he——”
“Dear, the man is mortal. I say, I shall kill him.”
“Yet, if you kill him——”
He lifted her face to his.
“Well, I might have to go over the water for a while. But I should come back.”
“Hilary!”
He felt all the woman in her stirring in his arms.