Excerpt: ...the fact, either, that we are here, man and wife, to help each other. I'm waiting, Sylvia, for you to tell me what has gone wrong." All that she grasped of what he said she would have denied passionately; but the iron in his nature, now manifesting itself 150 again, she did not understand and she stood in awe of it. "Give me until to-morrow," she pleaded. "I think perhaps I'm ill to-night. You know how you imagine things sometimes? Give me until to-morrow, until I can see more clearly. Perhaps it won't seem ...
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Excerpt: ...the fact, either, that we are here, man and wife, to help each other. I'm waiting, Sylvia, for you to tell me what has gone wrong." All that she grasped of what he said she would have denied passionately; but the iron in his nature, now manifesting itself 150 again, she did not understand and she stood in awe of it. "Give me until to-morrow," she pleaded. "I think perhaps I'm ill to-night. You know how you imagine things sometimes? Give me until to-morrow, until I can see more clearly. Perhaps it won't seem anything at all by to-morrow." And Harboro, pondering darkly, consented to question her no more that night. Later he lay by her side, a host of indefinable fears keeping him company. He could not sleep. He did not even remotely guess the nature of her trouble, but he knew instinctively that the very foundations of her being had been disturbed. Once, toward morning, she began to cry piteously. "No, oh no!" The words were repeated in anguish until Harboro, in despair, seized her in his arms. "What is it, Sylvia?" he cried. "No one shall harm you!" He held her on his breast and soothed her, his own face harrowed with pain. And he noticed that she withdrew into herself again, and seemed remote, a stranger to him. 151 Then she fell into a sound sleep and breathed evenly for hours. The dawn broke and a wan light filled the room. Harboro saw that her face was the face of Sylvia again
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