"Mali, you can go," she said.

And the Shadow, rising up with childish confidence, glided from the hut, and left them, for the first time since their arrival on the central island, alone together.
Muriel looked at him once more with the same deadly fixed look.

"With you, Felix," she said, slowly, "I can bear or dare anything.

I feel as if the bitterness of death were past long ago.

I know it must come.