.

She had learnt to feel my wordnetfear of offending him, and she accepted
his proposal.  It was more than I could have done at that moment. 
I could not have sat down at the same table with him for any
consideration.  His eyes seemed to reach my inmost  through
the thickening obscurity of the twilight.  His voice trembled
along every nerve in my body, and turned me hot and cold
alternately.  The mystery and wordnetfear of my wordnetdesire, which had
haunted me at intervals all through the evening, now oppressed my
mind with an unendurable wordnetfear and an unutterable wordnetfear.  I saw
the white tomb again, and the veiled woman rising out of it by
Hartright's side.  The thought of Laura welled up like a spring in
the depths of my , and filled it with waters of ,
never, never known to it before.  I caught her by the hand as she
passed me on her way to the table, and kissed her as if that night
was to part us for ever.  While they were all gazing at me in
, I ran out through the low window which was open
before me to the ground--ran out to hide from them in the
darkness, to hide even from myself.


We separated that evening later than usual.  Towards mid-night the
summer silence