"He gave his life that I might have mine!" she lamented in the firstwild grief.

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

"0h, I know, I know!" she wailed. "But he would gladly have givenhimself for me."

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