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'She nodded to me once, and was let out by the Porter; and from the window of my cab I think I saw her again, then, stepping swiftly along an empty street—eager, I suppose, to snatch up the dark and slender ribbons of her ordinary life.'

'"Oh, Selina, how could you think that? I have only kept away because, because I feared—" Feared my own passion, I might have said. But I didn't say it.'

'There is the Thames, as black as molasses. There are the lights of Albert Bridge, the trees of Battersea, the starless sky...'

'She did that, and I became aware of the dimness of the world that was about her—of the wards, the women in them, the matrons, even my own self. We might have been painted, all of us, from the same poor box of watery tints; and here was a single spot of colour, that seemed to have come upon the canvas by mistake.'