And you shall see what comes!' This would I have said, and held to it, and gloried.

But I knew love, and there was an anguish that I could not endure--that my Gerald should look at me with changed eyes, feeling that somewhat of his rightful meed was gone.

And I was all distraught and conquered.

Of ending his base life I never thought, never at my wildest, though I had thought to end my own; but when Fate struck the blow for me, then I swore that carrion should not taint my whole life through.

It should not--should not--for 'twas Fate's self had doomed me to my ruin.