I hardly know what I'm saying....

But listen--I'm coming to see you." "No," she said.
That trenchant word was thought-provoking.

A glimmer of understanding began to dawn in Lane.

Already an immense pity had flooded his soul, and a profound sense of the mystery and tragedy of Mel Iden.

She had always been unusual, aloof, proud, unattainable, a girl with a heart of golden fire.