Oh, horror, horror, horror! Oh, hideous abomination and deed without a name! I could not speak.

I caught her in my arms, and we both wept passionately.
The happiness of our love was now darkened by this tremendous cloud that lowered before us.

The shock of this discovery was overpowering, and some time elapsed before I could rally from it.

Though Almah's love was sweet beyond expression, and though as the time passed I saw that every jom she regained more and more of her former health and strength, still I could not forget what had been revealed.
We were happy with one another, yet our happiness was clouded, and amid the brightness of our love there was ever present the dread spectre of our appalling doom.
These feelings, however, grew fainter.

Hope is ever ready to arise; and I began to think that these people, though given to evil ways, were after all kind-hearted, and might listen to entreaty.