But for her, I should have come perhaps to love Phebe with this same love; perhaps,--who knows ?--Phebe might so have loved me.

As it is--Soeur Angelique you know what I am.

You know if I am likely to deceive myself.
Gerald Vernor has changed my life for always.

What might have been, now can never be." He stood still a moment, looking full at her.

It was wonderful how resolute and firm and yet brave and gentle too those merry brown eyes of his could become.