"

He rallied for a moment. He made his one last pitiful stand against the
supernatural thing that was conquering him.

He had risen to go.

"And when _I_ want to come, when I long for you, what then?"

"_Your_ longing will make no difference."

She smiled also, as if she foresaw how it would work, and that soon,
very soon, he would cease to long for her.

His hand was on the door. He smiled back at her.

"I don't want to shake your faith in it," he said.

"You can't shake my faith in It."

"Still--it breaks down. It breaks down," he cried.

"Never. You don't understand," she said. "It was the flaw in the
crystal."

Soon, very soon he would know it. Already he had shown submission.

She had no doubt of the working of the Power. Bella remained as a sign
that it had once been, and that, given the flawless crystal, it should
be again.

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

The following changes have been made to the original text:

Page 109: "there's" changed to "there" in "there he's been for
years."

Page 110: added missing quotation mark before "Agatha, why can't
we?"

Page 188: "shapless" changed to "shapeless" in "thoughts unborn
and shapeless,"

Other variations in spelling and inconsistent hyphenation have been
retained as they appear in the original book.

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