Her love would soon revive when they should meet every day, and she would end by eloping with him.
Then conscience pricked him, and reminded him how and why Raynal had married her: for Rose had told him all.

Should he undermine an absent soldier, whose whole conduct in this had been so pure, so generous, so unselfish?
But this was not all.

As I have already hinted, he was under a great personal obligation to his quondam comrade Raynal.

Whenever this was vividly present to his mind, a great terror fell on him, and he would cry out in anguish, "Oh! that some angel would come to me and tear me by force from this place!" And the next moment passion swept over him like a flood, and carried away all his virtuous resolves.

His soul was in deep waters; great waves drove it to and fro.