Yet Eve must have all but told her in so many words that she was weary of her lover.

That hateful harping on "gratitude"! Well, one cannot purchase a woman's love.

He had missed the right, the generous, line of conduct.

That would have been to rescue Eve from manifest peril, and then to ask nothing of her.

Could he but have held his passions in leash, something like friendship--rarest of all relations between man and woman--might have come about between him and Eve.