She forgot her vital hatred of the South Seas; she forgot that McClintock's would not differ a jot from the old island she had for ever left behind her; she forgot all the doctor's lessons and warnings.
She would marry him.

Because of the thought of love and companionship?
No.

Because here was the haven for which she had been blindly groping: the positive abolition of all her father's rights in her--the right to drag her back.

The annihilation of the Terror which fascinated her and troubled her dreams o' nights.
"You want me, then ?" she said.
"Oh, yes!--for always!" He took her hands and pressed them upon his thrumming heart; and in this attitude they remained for some time.
Something forbade him to draw her toward him and seal the compact with a kiss.

Down under the incalculable selfishness of the penitent child there was the man's uneasy recollection of Judas.