Beyond the Rocks

Then he knew all hope was over, and the mad passion went out of him, and

his arms dropped to his sides as if half life had fled. She looked up in

his face in fear at its ghastly whiteness.

And at this moment, through the parted willows, there appeared the

sullen, mocking eyes of Morella Winmarleigh.

She pushed the bushes aside, and, followed by Lord Wensleydown, she came

towards the summer-house.

Her slow senses had taken in the scene. Hector was evidently very

unhappy, she thought, and that hateful woman had been teasing him, no

doubt.

Thus her banal mind read the tragedy of these two human lives.