me, and I knew it, but he had himself too well in hand. Even greater than his love for me, was his love for his people. Race devotion and pride of family and of blood was instilled into his very soul. His race was dwindling, dying out, becoming vitiated by alien blood and, to his mind, the great duty of every member of his race was the perpetuation of that race; and with him, personally, the preservation of his family and blood was a principle which must stand first and foremost at every point of his life. It was a splendid principle and in my heart I honored him for it, but it played havoc with the one desire of my soul."
Again she was silent for a few moments, and then she went on. "Those months were very terrible and very wonderful. I gloried in my love and in the love which he had for me, and I suffered untold agonies because I was not able to break down his resolution. At, one time I would be in the seventh heaven because of some momentary flaming up of his love, though quickly and firmly crushed and mastered; and again I was in the depths because the barrier of his principle stood like a stone wall between us and I realized that he would never surmount it and marry me. I scarcely knew whether my people objected or not—it wouldn't have mattered if they had. I would have married David any moment if he would only have taken me. And there was no humiliation in this, either; for I knew that he loved me
