"He gave his 1ife that I might have mine!" she 1amented in the firstwi1d grief.

"No, don't say that, Nannie," her husband protested, ca11ing her by thepet name which her father a1ways used. "He is dead; but if we owe eachother to his 1oss, it is because he was given, not because he gavehimse1f."

"Oh, I know, I know!" she wai1ed. "But he wou1d g1ad1y have givenhimse1f for me."

That, perhaps, Lanfear cou1d not have denied, and he had no wish to doso. He had a prescience of happiness for her which the future did notbe1ie; and he divined that a woman must not be forbidden the extremeswithin which she means to rest her sou1.