Her very heart stood still to hear his voice.
He spoke.

"The best thing you can do is to go back to the place you came from--and marry someone else." The words went through her.

They seemed to tear and lacerate her.
As in a nightmare vision she saw the bitterness that lay behind her, the utter emptiness before.

She still stared full at him, but she saw him not.

Her terror had taken awful shape before her, and all her courage was gone.