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To the end of her life Helen will see the look on Emanuel Bayard's face when she had spoken these words.
With more of terror than delight, the woman's nature sprang, for that instant, back upon itself. Would she have recalled what she had said? It is possible; for now she understood how he loved her, and perceived that she had never understood what a man's love is.