Will you not see?” she cried. “You are not as other men are. Why need you bow to a Fate? Can you not change it?

Yes – But – Well, it is yours to choose. I do not force anyone. Is it a hard choice?” “No-o.” Judith shook her head. “Except that I do not know which to choose.

And there was something else, it seemed, now permanently part of her life. Doubt, and suspicion too, filled all that there was room for in her waking thoughts.