If he says it is better that we should part, then--then-- then I will let him go." After this Rebecca left the room and the house.

Before she went, she kissed the Christian girl; but Nina did not remember that she had been kissed.

Her mind was so full, not of thought, but of the suggestion that had been made to her, that it could now take no impression from anything else.

She had been recommended to do a thing as her duty--as a paramount duty towards him who was everything to her--the doing of which it would be impossible that she should survive.

So she told herself when she was once more alone, and had again seated herself in the chair by the window.