There is only one place, where I am master--" He stopped short, and grew very pale again, looking at the wall, but seeing something very far away.
"Where ?" asked Dolores.

"Take me there! Oh, take me where you are master--where there is no king but you, where we can be together all our lives, and no one can come between us!" He stood motionless, staring at the wall, contemplating in amazement the vastness of the temptation that arose before him.

Dolores could not understand, but she did what a loving women does when the man she loves seems to be in a great distress.

She came and stood beside him, passing one arm through his and pressing it tenderly, without a word.

There are times when a man needs only that to comfort him and give him strength.
But even a woman does not always know them.
Very slowly he turned to her, almost as if he were trying to resist her eyes and could not.