You pillar of salt accursed. Adown the pale-green glacier river floats!

You woman most holy, you mother, you being He said: "Do you catch what they say?"

After much struggling and loss in love and in the world of man, the protagonist throws in his lot with a woman who is already married. Together they go into another country, she perforce leaving her children behind. The conflict of love and hate goes on between the man and the woman, and between these two and the world around them, till it reaches some sort of conclusion, they transcend into some condition of blessedness She is brewing hope from despair. going up in a foetid smoke to get rid of them