Help me now to keep out everything that can intrude itself here to disturb my peace.

If Orion should ever dare, for whatever purpose, to force or steal a way into this house, I trust to you, my friend and deliverer!" She held out her hand to Philippus, and as he took it the blood seethed in his veins with tender emotion.
"My strength, like my heart, is wholly yours!" he exclaimed ardently.
"Command them, and if the devoted love of a faithful, plain-spoken man--" "Say no more, no, no!" Paula broke in with anxious vehemence.

"Let us remain closely bound together by friendship-as brother and sister." "As brother and sister ?" he dully echoed with a melancholy smile.

"Aye, friendship too is a beautiful, beautiful thing.

But yet--let me speak--I have dreamed of love, the tossing sea of passion; I have felt its surges here--in here; I feel them still....