"You must let me go, my own darling," he said, "You must let me go, without crossing the border.
If you pass beyond the taboo-line to-night, Heaven only knows what, perhaps, may happen to you.

We must give these people no handle of offence.

Good-night, Muriel, my own heart's wife; and if I never come back, then good-by forever." She clung to his arm still.

He disentangled himself, gently.

The Shadow rose at the same moment, and followed in silence to the open door.