"I loathe him! When I
think of yesterday, I could drown myself. If I could pile the whole
world between him and me--I would. But"--she shivered--"but yet--if he
were sitting there--"
"You would be once more under the spell?" said Ashe, bitterly.
"Spell!" she repeated, with scorn. Then snatching her hands from his,
she threw back the hair from her temples with a wild gesture. "I warned
you," she said--"I warned you."
"A man doesn't pay much attention to those warnings, Kitty."
"Then it is not my fault. I don't know what's wrong with me," she said,
sombrely; "but I remember saying to you that sometimes my brain was on
fire. I seem to be always in a hurry--in a desperate, desperate
hurry!--to know or to feel something--while there is still time--before
one dies. There is always a passion--always an effort. More life--
more
life!--even if it lead to pain--and agony--and tears."
She raised her strange, beautiful eyes, which had at the moment almost a
look of delirium, and fixed them on his face. But Ashe's impression was
that she did not see him.
He was conscious of the same pang, the same sudden terror that he had
felt on that never-to-be-forgotten evening when she had talked to him of
the mask in the "Tempest.
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