I had found by bitter experience that if I intruded into the conversation, I should only suffer the more.
"'I have sent down to Durazzo to get a doctor,' he went on; 'naturally having taken all this trouble I don't want to lose you by death.

She is breaking up,' he repeated with relish and yet with an undertone of annoyance in his voice; 'she asked for you three times this morning.' "I kept myself under control as I had never expected that a man so desperately circumstanced could do.
"'Kara,' I said as quietly as I could, 'what has she done that she should deserve this hell in which she has lived ?' "He sent out a long ring of smoke and watched its progress across the dungeon.
"'What has she done ?' he said, keeping his eye on the ring--I shall always remember every look, every gesture, and every intonation of his voice.

'Why, she has done all that a woman can do for a man like me.

She has made me feel little.

Until I had a rebuff from her, I had all the world at my feet, Lexman.