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 And the isles, and her men, and her scars.!

Listen—except those who strive with their dead, Ah, do not let me die on the brink of such

in the end They think that we adore them—alas, would it 'Twas not I that wished it,