All that should be mended.

He had learned her character, and perceived how absolutely she fed upon his love; and he would take care that the food should always be there, palpably there, for her sustenance.

But--but he must try her yet once more before all this could be done for her.

She must pass yet once again through the fire; and if then she should come forth as gold, she should be to him the one pure ingot which the earth contained.

With how great a love would he not repay her in future days for all that she would have suffered for his sake?
But she must be made to go through the fire again.