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It was the words that he spoke to her afterwards, when they were climbing the dark slope of the Gore field, that were scattered like the thorns of a penance under her feet. She had tried to hold to his arm as though they had come through some shipwreck together, but he had put her aside and walked apart.
-"I'm sorry, my dear, and I'm not sorry. Now, everything is finished between us. You have paid for the heartache you gave me."