"I had gone to see your father--about you.

I was standing there, thinking ...

waiting, when the front door opened, and you and Thalassa came out.

I was surprised to see you, but it seemed to me an opportunity--a final chance--to speak to you again.

I started after you, Sisily, once more to ask you to consider my love for you, but you and Thalassa were swallowed up in the darkness of the moors before I could reach you.