Diane began to hope; Sally lost her woe.

He changed the atmosphere of that room.

Something filled it, something like himself, big, virile, strong.

The very look of him made me suddenly want to live; and all at once it seemed I felt alive.

And that was like taking the deadened ends of nerves to cut them raw and quicken them with fiery current.
From stupor I had leaped to pain, and that tossed me into fever.