In the first place she must liberate her nurse--in this he could promise to help her--and everything he said was so judicious in its bearing on the circumstances that had to be reckoned with, and the facts actual or possible, that she was astonished at the practical good sense of this man, with whom she had generally talked only of matters apart from this world.

Finally she yielded, chiefly for the sake of her father and Perpetua; but partly in the hope of still enjoying his society.

She would remain in Memphis, at any rate for the present, under the roof of a friend of the physician's--long known to her by report--a Melchite like herself, and there await the further development of her fate.
To be away from Orion and never, never to see him again was her heartfelt wish.

All places were the same to her where she had no fear of meeting him.

She hated him; still she knew that her heart would have no peace so long as such a meeting was possible.