Alas! He was in no other way bound to me than by my love: nor ever could be.
I don't know whether I was prepared for it or not: I knew that something terrible and final was to come, and I felt the awe that attends the thoughts that words are final and time limited.

But when I heard the fatal truth--that another woman lived to whom he was irrevocably bound--I heard it as in a dream, and did not move or speak.

I think I felt for a moment as if I were dead, as if I had passed out of the ranks of the living into the abodes of the silent, and benumbed, and pulseless.

There was such a horrible awe, and chill, and check through all my young and rapid blood.

It was like death by freezing.