What, then, would M'sieu' say?
That gave her pause.

The Seigneur's words the day before had driven her back upon a tide of emotions which carried her far out upon that sea where reason and life's conventions are derelicts, where Love sails with reckless courage down the shoreless main.
"If I could only be near him!" she kept saying to herself.

"It is my right.

I would give my life, my soul for his.

I was with him before when his life was in danger.