Shock, convulsion, pain, relaxation, and then unutterable and insupportable sensing of her environment and the heart! In one way she was a wild animal alone in the woods, forced into the mating that meant reproduction of its kind.
In another she was an infinitely higher being shot through and through with the most resistless and mysterious transport that life could give to flesh.
And when that spell slackened its hold there wedged into her mind a consciousness of the man she loved--Jean Isbel.

Then emotion and thought strove for mastery over her.

It was not herself or love that she loved, but a living man.

Suddenly he existed so clearly for her that she could see him, hear him, almost feel him.

Her whole soul, her very life cried out to him for protection, for salvation, for love, for fulfillment.