That you, who are the only woman whom I have ever loved, should be the only one in whom I also have raised an affection which is free from greed or interest.

I wonder whether you may not have been sent by Providence simply to restore my confidence in the world.

How barren a place would it not be if it were not for woman's love! When all seemed black around me this morning, I tell you, Laura, that I seemed to turn to you and to your love as the one thing on earth upon which I could rely.

All else seemed shifting, unstable, influenced by this or that base consideration.

In you, and you only, could I trust." "And I in you, dear Raffles! I never knew what love was until I met you." She took a step towards him, her hands advanced, love shining in her features, when in an instant Raffles saw the colour struck from her face, and a staring horror spring into her eyes.