Every look, every word, every act of his returned to her now in the light of the truth.

Love at first sight! He had sworn it, bitterly, eloquently, scornful of her doubts.

And now a blind, sweet, shuddering ecstasy swayed her.

How weak and frail seemed her body--too small, too slight for this monstrous and terrible engine of fire and lightning and fury and glory--her heart! It must burst or break.

Relentlessly memory pursued Ellen, and her thoughts whirled and emotion conquered her.