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"Ruined love, when it is built anew, / Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater." / --Romeo and Juliet, Act I., Scene I.
As Hilary kept guard over her lover through those long hours of waiting, seeing the pain which she could do nothing to relieve, fearing, as she watched his failing strength, that the end was indeed drawing near, it seemed to her that the punishment of all her pride and perversity was falling on her with overwhelming force.