Chapter 16 THE WAY OF WOMAN

For all that I realised that this love of mine for Yvonne was as a child still-born-a thing that had no existence save in the heart that had begotten it-I rejoiced meanly at the thought that she was not destined to become Andrea's wife. For since I understood that this woman-who to me was like no other of her sex-was not for so poor a thing as Gast