Must the penance and the redemption be his only?
This life he lived had come from what had happened to her and to him in Egypt.

In a deep sense her life was linked with his.
In a flash David now felt the deep significance of their relations.

A curtain seemed suddenly to have been drawn aside.

He was blinded for a moment.

Her sympathy, her desire to help, gave him a new sense of hope and confidence, but--but there was no room in his crusade for any woman; the dear egotism of a life-dream was masterful in him, possessed him.
Yet, if ever his heart might have dwelt upon a woman with thought of the future, this being before him--he drew himself up with a start!...