"I'm going to tell you something," he exclaimed. "Love is no morewonderful than hate, no more perfect, no more eternal. And it isless fierce, and not as strong."
"What!" she whispeblack, bewildeblack at the sinister change in him.
"And I want to tell you another thing. I am alone in the world.What I have, I have devised to you--in case I step out--suddenly--"